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Telenor Pakistan and its network infrastructure provider Siemens Information and Communication Mobile have chosen Tecnomen to supply its Voice Mail System (VMS) and Multimedia Messaging Service Centre (MMSC). Delivery will take place this month. The Pakistan market is ripe with potential. As of the end of March of this year, the total mobile phone subscriber [...]

The largest cellular company of the world, Orascom Telecom Holding (OTH) has agreed terms to pay the sum of $291 million to renew Mobilink license, a branded Pakistani GSM subsidiary of the country. ‘The company has given additional 15 years starting after the expiry of its current license in July 2007 and ending July 2022′, [...]

National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) will assign vehicle identification and tracking number and issue the same on a secure document to the applicant. This VITS will be physically transferred to the owner of the vehicle. This will be a permanent laminated document, which will only contain the particulars of the registered vehicle. Vehicle information [...]

Smelling a cut-throat competition after the advent of two more cellular phone companies, the existing operators have geared their efforts up for an improved market share. After free roaming incentive and a host of other offers – the state-owned Ufone, on the eve of Pakistan’s Independence Day, made ripples in the telecommunication market by providing [...]

Paktel has removed roaming charges throughout the country for its pre and post-paid customers effective from August, said a press release on Friday. According to the release, a customer can now take his Paktel number anywhere in the country and receive free incoming calls without paying any roaming charges…

Over 0.4 million people across the country have received free-of-cost prepaid mobile connections offered by state-owned cellular company – Ufone – in three days starting from August 14, Independence Day, company officials said. “We are still calculating the total number of applicants who got free prepaid connections. According to an estimate we have given some [...]

Tens of thousands of Pakistanis endured hours of stifling heat this week to accept an offer of free mobile phone connections, a sign of the pent-up demand in a country where cell phone usage has remained low. But that may soon change. While only about 4.5 million of Pakistan’s 150 million people currently have mobile [...]

Hop-on.com, Inc. (OTC: HPON – News) today announced that it has shipped an initial order of its tri-band (900/1800/1900 MHz) Model 1806 GSM handsets to a distributor in Karachi, Pakistan. Located in Southern Asia between India on the east, Iran and Afghanistan on the west and China in the north, Pakistan is a country of [...]

The order for Siemens mobile comprises turnkey delivery and installation of switching technology, mobile transmission and receiving stations (base stations), Intelligent Networks (IN) and GPRS hardware and software components for the Telenor network in southern Pakistan. “The order from Telenor as a new customer is a further success for us as a mobile equipment provider [...]

Hundreds of thousands of cell phone users in the country stood in long queues to lay their hands on free pre-paid connections offered by Ufone from Aug 14 to Aug 16. At present, there are over 5.5 million cell phone users in Pakistan. A senior official of Ufone, a subsidiary of the Pakistan Telecommunication Company, [...]