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The number of cell phone users in the country has surpassed the number of fixed line telephone customers in just over a decade of operations, helping the country to achieve a cellular tele-density rate of over four while tele-density rate of fixed telephones stands at three percent. According to latest figures compiled by the Pakistan [...]

Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) is going to launch its Wireless Local Loop (WLL) service in the remote areas of the country this month. PTCL Senior Executive Vice President, Sales and Human Resource, Shahzad Sadan, said this at an Iftar-cum-dinner hosted by PTCL, here on Wednesday. He said Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz will inaugurate the [...]

Ufone, a leading [Pakistani] cellular GSM operator, on Monday signed the single largest expansion contract in Pakistan’s cellular history, with Nortel Networks for the extension of its network in 2004-05. Under the contract valued at over $125 million, Nortel will expand Ufone’s Global System for Mobile (GSM) and General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) networks to [...]

Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) has given over 42,000 free of cost phone connections in Karachi during its two-week long ‘Bilkul Muft’ Scheme. On September 2, the state-owned telecom giant launched its ‘Bilkul Muft’ Scheme under which the phone utility waived a Rs750 fee for demand note for two weeks to install free of cost [...]

New cellular and fixed-line telephone companies, which are likely to begin operations by December following the deregulation of the telecom sector, are expected to create over 8,000 direct and indirect job opportunities in the country. Pakistan’s official unemployment rate stands at 8.27 percent, but economists estimate the real rate to be much higher. Telecom authorities [...]

In an exclusive interview with The News, [Chairman Pakistan Telecommunication Authority] said the cell phone charges which were currently Rs 3 to Rs 5 per minute would come down to Rs 1.50 to Rs 2 per minute. The PTA chairman said that in the next two years, number of mobile connections would be enhanced from [...]

Ericsson further strengthens its industry leadership in managed services by the signing of a services contract with Warid Telecommunications Pvt. Limited (Warid Telecom) in Pakistan. The contract with Warid Telecom covers the first phase of its nationwide GSM/GPRS network, covering 28 major cities. Under the contract, Ericsson will provide turnkey network design, deployment and integration [...]

New licence cell-phone company WARID telecom will start its operation in Pakistan from the beginning of year 2005, said Chairman Warid Telecom and UAE Minister Shiekh Nahayan Mubarak Al-Nayhayan, says a news report. Sheikh Al-Nayhayan, who is also the chairman United Bank Limited, Bank Alflah and the minister for higher technology of the UAE was [...]

Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited’s (PTCL) offer of free connections is expected to crop some Rs 250 million to Rs 300 million off the state-owned company’s bottom line by the end of current financial year. Business managers at the company have calculated that over 400,000 connections would be provided in the week-long campaign which started Thursday. [...]

The facility would also enable the mobile users to keep their contacts intact even after they change the operator. The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has decided to introduce mobile number portability (MNP) to enable cellular mobile subscribers to retain their mobile phone numbers when they change mobile operators. An official of PTA said that the [...]