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Motorola Opens Pakistan Office

In Pakistan, Motorola has established itself as a supplier of state-of-the-art communications technology equipment, enabling people to communicate much easier. Offerings comprise mobile phones, network infrastructure ( wireline and wireless ), two-way radio communications equipment for public safety organizations and broadband communications products. The company’s history in Pakistan goes back eleven years. Motorola was a [...]

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Pakistan Telecommunication Best Performing in Asia

Pakistan Telecommunication, Indosat of Indonesia and True of Thailand are the best performers among Asian phone shares this month as investors bet on expansion in nations with the fastest growth in subscribers. Investors are following Singapore Telecommunications and Norway’s Telenor, which have bought stakes in cellphone operators in South Asia and Southeast Asia to benefit [...]

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Yahoo! Launches Pakistan SMS Service

Yahoo! the world’s number one online media brand and the most trafficked Internet destination with more than 345 million unique visitors has launched Yahoo! Messenger for SMS in Pakistan with Mobilink, the country’s leading cellular service provider. The partnership between Yahoo! and Mobilink will see Yahoo! Messenger for SMS extended to well over 5 million [...]

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Norway Firm Hits Pakistani Roads with a Unique TV Advertisement

Getting from Norway to Pakistan is not easy. You could just call, of course, but it might be more fun to drive. Telenor, the Oslo-based telecommunications company, decided to do both in introducing a cellphone service in Pakistan last week: To promote the occasion, it used a television commercial that looks more like a sped-up [...]

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Norway Firm Opens $1 Billion Pakistani Phone Network

Telenor won a Pakistani mobile network license in April 2004 with a bid of US$291 million (euro217 million), and plans to invest an estimated US$1 billion (euro750 million) through the next six to eight years in the country. The Norwegian company said its subsidiary, Telenor Pakistan, hopes to be able to provide cell phone coverage [...]

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Two New Cell Phone Firms to Join Pakistan’s Telecom Party

Two new cellular mobile licensees are set to launch their service, further intensifying the on-going price competition while concurrently accelerating growth in the market size. Telenor would launch its cellular company from March 15, while Warid is planning to start its service next month. With 6 operators, most having deep pockets, the cellular mobile market [...]

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Another Firm Joins Pakistan Telecom Party

A new telecom operator – Redtone Pakistan – on Friday announced provision of services at 50 per cent less than the existing market rates, following the launch of its operations in the country from April this year. Initially, the company plans to introduce services for corporate customers while services for the general consumers would be [...]

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Malaysian Telco Plans to Go Big in Pakistan

WITH the telecommunications sector in Pakistan remaining vastly untapped, Malaysia’s Dancom Group, which expanded here a decade ago, has set its sights on gaining a bigger share of the market. Dancom Holdings Bhd ventured into Pakistan in 1995 through its joint-venture company, Dancom Pakistan (Pvt) Ltd, with a 60% stake in the latter. With the [...]

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Cell Phone Firm Slashes Call Tariff

The Ufone on Friday announced Rs 2 reduction in its outgoing calls and Ps 50 cut in the short message service (SMS) from February 5. He said only Rs 1.5 on outgoing calls would be charged after 10pm onwards. In addition, the Ufone prepaid customers would benefit from the lowest SMS rates as every SMS [...]

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Another Wireless Telephone Service For Karachi Next Month

Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd, PTCL, will launch its Wireless Local Loop (WLL) service in Karachi next month, PTCL is operating approximately 30 exchanges all over Karachi which will provide WLL connections to the subscribers, however, the subscriber would be restricted not to cross maximum 14-kilometer and minimum 6-kilometer range from his exchange.It may be mentioned [...]

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