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Thousands of people gathered outside Ufone branches in the city on August 14, 15 and 16 seeking free connections. The response seemed to take the company by surprise. According to a source in Ufone, the company set a target of 500,000 new connections in the five major cities over the four days. The rush of [...]

The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) on Friday completed the auction process for the grant of Wireless Local Loop (WLL) licences in five out of 14 telecom regions of the country. The telecom authority granted WLL licences for Faisalabad, Central, Lahore and Gujranwala telecom regions. The auction for the remaining regions would be completed by August [...]

Mobile phone consumers are reaping the benefits of the opening of the telecommunication sector as the mobile phone operators, feeling the heat of expected competition, have improved incentives and services to retain their subscriber base. The facilities being offered by the mobile companies were not thought of in the past. Each of the existing cell [...]

Paktel, a subsidiary of South Africa-based Millicom International Cellular, has approached the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) following Lahore High Court (LHC) directives to the company to approach the authority for GSM operations licence. Sources close to the authority said the company had formally submitted an appeal to the authority as asked by the LHC. ‘Today [...]

Cellular market continues to get a boost The cellular market across Pakistan continues to see a rush in its demand, eversince the two cardinal GSM operators, Mobilink and U-fone, announced to drop roaming charges for its subscribers. The Mobilink – the largest mobile service provider – went one step ahead and announced to remove long [...]

Now Mobilink customers can call any other Mobilink number anywhere in the country and pay only the applicable airtime rate. A customer can be in Islamabad calling Karachi, or be in Peshawar calling Quetta, or in Hyderabad calling Lahore – all calls will be considered local as long as it is …

Finnish mobile phone company Nokia says it has signed a deal with Norwegian firm Telenor to set up and run a mobile telephone network in Pakistan. The company said the network would be operational by the first half of next year, and would initially cover northern and central Punjab.