Mobilink Foundation has partnered with the Pakistan Life Saving Foundation (PALS RESCUE) to enhance the response time and coordination of Lifeguard teams at Sand spit and Hawks Bay beaches, in Karachi. Mobilink Foundation has provided 150 handsets with connectivity to help rescue patrols perform efficiently.The handsets will be provided to lifeguards who patrol Karachi’s beaches to prevent drowning and related injuries. Omar Manzur, Head of [...]

Jahanzeb Taj, Vice President, Mobile Financial Services at Mobilink has decided to resign from his position to take up an international assignment in Haiti. Jehanzeb had joined Mobilink as VP Sales in March 2009 and was later moved to head Marketing department as VP. Most recently, he was made Vice President of Mobile Financial Services in July 2012. Interestingly, we had predicted the probable exit [...]

Mobilink is now offering this new service to its customers with which they will be able to generate missed calls and send SMS to their friends when they don’t have balance. Mobilink said that customers will have to buy the bundle of 5 missed calls and 2 SMS for Rs. 2.25 plus tax per week. Once subscribed, customers can generate missed calls to let their [...]

Mobilink has launched Wikipedia Zero with the aim of providing its customers with free access to the world’s largest general reference database. With this offering, Wikipedia will be available for Mobilink’s prepaid customers who will have free access round the clock to the full mobile version of Wikipedia. Mobilink customers will also be able to view these articles in Urdu on supported handsets. Farid Ahmad, [...]

Mobilink Foundation and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) have signed an agreement to enhance the award winning ‘SMS Based Literacy’ program. The ‘SMS Based Literacy’ program uses Short Messaging Service (SMS) to impart education to learners across Pakistan. The program was conceived by UNESCO Islamabad, who started piloting this project with Mobilink in May 2009. The fourth (4th) phase, in 2013, [...]

Mobilink is now offering its customers to make unlimited calls from 12 AM to 7 PM next day on 20 FnF numbers at a fixed daily charge of Rs. 7 per day. With Gupshup offer, customers can add up to 20 FnF numbers and make free calls to them during the specified time. Call charges to other numbers will remain same, as per base package. [...]

National University of Sciences & Technology (NUST) School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (SEECS) and Mobilink have collaborated to encourage students to identify everyday problems and propose solutions using technology as a medium. NUST’s School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (SEECS) took the lead in developing a competition titled ‘Finding Innovative & Creative Solutions (FICS)’. The competition was a means of providing a [...]

During a latest development in telecom sector, Ufone and Mobilink has announced an increase of 5 paisas for balance inquiries. Zong, Telenor and Warid are likely to follow the move in coming days. Ufone said that new balance inquiry charges will be applicable from May 25th, while Mobilink hasn’t mentioned any date for new charges yet. We are sure that other operators will announce similar [...]

Mobilink posted a steady increase in revenues in first quarter of 2013 to reach Rs. 27.2 billion, up from 25.9 billion during the same duration a year ago. Revenues were mainly hit by tough regulatory environment, persistent energy shortage and law and order situation that resulted into government forced network outages. Mobilink, on other hands, took necessary measures to strengthen its position with given circumstances [...]

Mobilink has announced the availability of Blackberry Q10, one of two devices that were announced earlier this year at the launch of Blackberry 10. Running on Blackberry 10, Q10 comes with physical keyboard for those avid blackberry users who aren’t com comfortable with the sense of touch. Inside of Q10 there is a dual-core 1.6Ghz Cortex-A9 processor for seamless support to Blackberry 10. Blackberry Q10 [...]

Mobilink has stepped up to offer 80 percent discount on its Facebook bundle and Twitter bundle for free during general elections 2013. Mobilink said that its prepaid Jazz and Jazba customers will be able to avail Facebook bundle for Rs. 1 per day from May 10th to May 13th, 2013. Company said that it aims to provide its customers with easy and affordable way of [...]

Viber, primarily a multi-platform app that allows voice and text chat between phone users, has now released its desktop version of app for Windows and Mac. This landmark announcement was made yesterday after which Viber is now officially in line to take on Skype that has around or over 600 million users. Viber said that it has over 200 million users from various platforms, and [...]

Mobilink has signed Ericsson, the world’s number one vendor and known to be the most expensive and sophisticated telecom equipment maker, for network expansion and 3G roll-out, maintenance and other network functions, we have confirmed with sources. While you may know that Mobilink had signed long term contracts with Huawei and Alcatel-Lucent, just couple of months back, for its network expansion, modernization and laid the foundation of future 3G roll [...]

HTC, in collaboration with Mobilink, has launched the android smart phone “Butterfly”. Butterfly will be distributed to market by Brigthex. Consumers will be able to enjoy various add-ons provided by Mobilink, including a 30 days exclusive bundle, 1 GB internet, as well as a pouch and protector. ‘Butterfly’ is the latest of the HTC series which strives to transform the way one hears, sees and [...]

Mobilink is freeing up its resources – mainly from technical department – by laying off over 100 employees in a single go, we have confirmed with sources. This extreme action was taken when employees were served with sudden, without any notice, the termination letters today Morning. What’s surprising here is that employees were not notified beforehand, thus giving this step a rather undignified notion on [...]