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Companies from as far away as Norway have been tempted by Pakistan and its population of 140 million. Since July, 2003, regulators have handed out more than 200 fixed, mobile, and long-distance licenses to some 50 companies. Although there will surely be a shakeout with so many new entrants, officials believe operators will pour as [...]

Just as the Pakistan sun rises from the east over India in the early morning’s dawn, the same can be said about the rising telecommunications industry in this very interesting representative Phoenix of the Southern Asia region. There is a growth outbreak of industry and financial resources and, along with this activity, the infrastructure of [...]

Norway’s telecom giant Telenor has planned to invest $1 billion by 2010 in Pakistan’s mobile phone operation relating to infrastructure development, network expansion etc. The company is also likely to hire a new workforce of 400 people in the coming years from the present 350 employees. Telenor has so far invested 60 billion krona in [...]

Pakistan entered into a new phase of modern telecommunication technology with the operation of wireless local loop telephone service (WLL) in the private sector. He said that with the introduction of WLL service, the disparity between the Urban and Rural areas will no more be there and fade out in the next 2-3 years. However, [...]

The number of cellular phone subscribers has reached 7.9 million by December 2004 with 5.14 per cent teledensity, surpassing current fixed line teledensity which is 3.13 per cent. They said there were only 0.2 million mobile phone subscribers across the country in 1999, but with the introduction of various measures in cellular sector by PTA, [...]

As the ban on trade of used mobile phones is being lifted from January 1, 2005 (tomorrow), the police and Karachi Electronic Dealers Association (KEDA) have devised a joint strategy to counter the menace of mobile phone snatching in the metropolis. Police and the KEDA would formally introduce a web-based computerised mobile phone tracking system [...]

Siemens Communications Mobile Networks has won a $ 32 million contract with Pakistan’s U-Fone, to provide mobile telephone services in Pakistan. The deal between U-Fone, a subsidiary of Pakistan Telecom Mobile, and Siemens enables Pakistan’s second largest mobile operator to increase its subscriber base by 500,000 from its present 1.3 million subscribers. The project will [...]

Pakistan’s cell phone population will touch 10 million from existing 6.8 million, by the end of current fiscal, said a senior official of Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA). According to data provided by the PTA, the number of cell phone users is increasing tremendously in the current fiscal year compared to previous fiscal year, which ended [...]

The mobile phone penetration rate in Pakistan and other countries like Bangladesh, Indonesia and Vietnam is less than 10 per cent, which indicates their tremendous potential for growth. “There are 700 million people in these four countries, thus low mobile penetration shows tremendous potential for growth in these economies,” Ericsson (South East Asia) President Kristian [...]

Paktel, founder of the cellular industry in Pakistan, Thursday launched its GSM service throughout the country. Launching the 0304-code GSM service at a press conference here, he said, Paktel has 350,000 subscribers in its existing network and the company, starting with about a million connection capacity aims at around two million capacity in more than [...]