It is anticipated that Government of Pakistan can not issue any new telecom license for 7 years, i.e. till March 2013 based on terms signed in Sale Purchase Agreement of 26 percent sale of PTCL shares.
According to stats, made available to ProPakistani, Zong topped all operators for MNP user gain by adding net 376,705 subscribers (port-in subscribers minus port out subscribers) during January 2011 to August 2011.
PTCL this week announced it’s financial results and said that company’s net profit for year 2010-11 remained Rs. 7.43 billion – 20 percent lower than Rs. 9.15 billion during the same period previous year.
A market with three 3G operators and two GSM operators will emerge after 3G license auction. This scenario (with little variation) is something Pakistan is familiar with, i.e. four GSM operators and two AMPS networks namely InstaPhone and Paktel.
Zahid Hussain, an IT professional from Pakistan has developed a search engine/directory software for the Holy Quran, which can display topic based results from Holy Quran in four different languages.