Competition Commission of Pakistan has prepared Deceptive Marketing Guidelines draft for telecommunication companies as part of its efforts to protect consumers from anti-competitive behaviour through ensuring compliance in telecom sector sales, marketing, advertising, and communication in all forms across all mediums, online and Point of Sale (PoS). The draft guidelines have been shared with the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority and other telecom companies and have been [...]

Mobilink has joined the race of GSMA Global Awards by getting nominated in the category of Best Mobile Education or Learning Product or Service. The award category aims to highlight the rapidly increasing convergence of the mobile and education sectors, and to highlight some of the key areas of genuine innovation in learning and education initiatives, products, services or applications throughout the world today. The [...]

Telenor’s Easypaisa and UBL Omni have been shortlisted again for GSMA Global Mobile Awards 2013 in two separate categories. Easypaisa got its nomination shortlisted under the category of Best Mobile Phone Product and Service. It is being contested by five other operators of different countries including: Etisalat for Flous – The Etisalat Commerce Programme Isracard LTD powered by MyCheck for Cellpay Mopet, Oberthur Technologies & [...]

Ufone has been granted licence to operate national wide U Microfinance Bank (formerly Rozgar Microfinance Bank Limited) by State Bank of Pakistan, with which it intends to offer branchless banking in future. Arif Sirhindi will be president and CEO of U Microfinance Bank, who possess rich experience of consumer banking with various bank including Askari Bank Limited, the partner of Zong for Timepey. Pakistan Telecommunication [...]

Telenor has outshined in Pakistan Advertisers Society (PAS) Awards – country’s premiere advertising awards – by winning two titles in two different categories. Wateen and Nokia also bagged PAS Awards in their respective categories tonight. Telenor’s Khamoshi Ka Boycott ad by ADCOM won the best ad award for “Telecommunication Service Provider” category. Other shortlisted ads in this category were by Ufone namely “Ufone Mobile Internet” [...]

Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) has recorded a hat trick on the 100 index of Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) by remaining market leader in terms of shares’ trading volume on three consecutive days of the present week. PTCL remained a leading scrip on the 100 index and experts say it is likely to retain its position of volume leader by the end of trading session [...]

Read this post in Urdu Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has warned against the installment, supplies and imports of mobile phone jammers in different places and asked to dismantle them all at the earliest before any legal action to be taken by authority. The authority has also directed all traders of telecom equipment to not to imports mobile phone jammers without prior permission of Ministry of [...]

Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has notified the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for making difference of blacklist and whitelist IP addresses used by various service providers. The directives issued by the authority recently stated that white list would be the list of IP addresses maintained of service providers for the purpose of allowing them for using VoIP services. The list will be maintained by the Vigilance [...]

The State Bank of Pakistan has allowed Waseela Microfinance Bank, a subsidy of Orascom Telecom and sister concern of Mobilink, to commence business as a nationwide microfinance bank. SBP earlier had issued a license to the Bank against Rs 0.25 million however the bank has now fulfilled its all requirement for showing its asset of Rs 1 billion. The banking regulator has also approved the [...]

Chances of 3G auction seem slight in the coming months but authorities involved in the auction process are taking positions on the possible issue of cartelization between the two cellular operators — Mobilink and Telenor – having single ownership at holding level. CCP has clarified its position on the auction issue and categorically sidelined itself with the process. It is not the mandate of Competition [...]

Raja Pervaiz Asharaf, architect of defunct rental power projects, has been given the charge of Minister of Information Technology and Telecommunication (MoITT) in the recent expansion of federal cabinet. It is an interesting development and must be amazing and shocking for many in IT and Telecom industry in particularly and for masses in general, while most of them believe that it is better to be [...]

Read this post in Urdu Ghazanfar Azzam has been appointed as CEO Waseela Microfinance Bank by Orascom Telecom Holding recently, officials at Mobilink confirmed ProPakistani. He will be leading the branchless and microfinance bank of Orascom with collaboration of its subsidiary Mobilink, having highest subscribers base of cellular users in the country. Mr. Azzam was offered to head Waseela Bank when he was already working [...]

Read this post in Urdu The telecom sector has become biggest utility services consumed by customers of various income level in different parts of the country as they paid Rs 39.828 billion on the account of taxes on telephony services in the first half of current financial year 2011-12. According to the FBR statistics, it collected Rs 24.058 billion GST/FED from customers of different telephony [...]

WorldCall Telecom has been in focus of investors’ attention at Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) for past one month as shares’ trading of the company was witnessed huge volume with constant improvement in par values. On Monday, it was once again seen a top performer at KSE 100 index in terms of volume after number of shares traded crossed 30.86 million benchmark with value of a [...]

Telecom sector witnessed an outflow of US $ 253.3 million Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in eight months of the current financial year 2011-12 as a result of closure and curtailment of their businesses and operations in the country. According to the State Bank of Pakistan’s statistics, the de-investment in the telecom sector, one of the leading contributors of FDI in Pakistan, was recorded 364 percent [...]