Muhammad Aslam Hayat has been appointed as Chief Corporate Affairs and Security Officer in Telenor Pakistan. He will be joining the company from 8 July 2013. Muhammad Aslam Hayat is an ICT regulatory professional who is currently working as Centre Director (CEO) of Pacific ICT Regulatory Resource Centre (PIRRC) in Suva, Fiji, a World Bank Project. In his role at PIRRC, he is responsible to [...]

Uth Pack is now offering a chance to its customers be a sure shot winner of a free movie pass for Blockbuster Iron Man 3, last from one of the most successful sci-fiction sequels. Uth Pack said that guaranteed free pass for Iron Man 3 can be obtained against a recharge of Rs.1,000, which can be used for air-time and other VAS as regular credit. [...]

Warid has started this new service with which customers can book their favourite Warid numbers online. Simply get to Warid website and start searching for your favourite number. Potential buyers can search for a particular number, name or date of birth. A list of all available numbers appear when search query is entered, from where customers can select their favourite Warid number. Upon CNIC and [...]

Warid Telecom has updated its “Warid Advance Balance” service making it more convenient for its customers. Warid customers only need to subscribe to the Warid Advance Balance service and never run-out of balance. Now instead of sending the request to get the Advance every time, the Customers shall subscribe in “Warid Advance Balance” service for once and get the Advance automatically whenever their account shall [...]

In a surprising move, Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) yesterday issued a notification according to which tax-rates on mobile phones were revised down-wards  — with three slabs — along tax collection at time of sale of each new SIM was re-imposed. On April 4, the FBR had issued a notification that the tax would be deducted at source from importers of mobile phones and would [...]

Mobile phone subscribers in Pakistan reached 122,127,717 at the end of March 2013, up from 120,962,829 just a month ago, reported Pakistan Telecommunication Authority. All five cellular operators added 1.16 million mobile phone subscribers during the period, taking the tele-density to 68.6 percent. Telenor added the most customers in the reported month by adding 417,997 customers to its base. Mobilink grew by 305,139 subscribers during [...]

Zong has said that it received an overwhelming response for its Carnama offer which was concluded recently. Zong has announced a series of Carnama offers, under which customers are given away Honda cars for just consuming credit for their communication needs. Customers, who consume a specific amount of credit during a promotion time, are automatically entered into a lucky draw through which they can win [...]

Easypaisa recently won three awards at Pakistan Advertisers Society (PAS) Awards 2013 for easypaisa Khushaal, the first savings and insurance product for branchless banking. The categories where Khushaal won were – Banking and Financial Services, Best Local Original campaign and Campaign of the Year. Picture shows (left to right) Mian Talha Nasruddin, Manager Marketing & Segments, Financial Services, Telenor Pakistan, Faisal Javed Khan, Head of [...]

Warid Telecom as released its latest football club services for Warid subscribers. Warid Football Club gives its subscriber a platform to stay updated with their favourite Football teams and Leagues through their mobile phones. From English Premier League to La Liga and the Football World Cup, this service is up to date with schedules, scores, team standings and much more. Some exciting features of this [...]

Ministry of Information Technology and Telecom, which remained minister-less during majority of last five years and arguably one of worst performing era in the the ministry, spent over Rs. 3 billion from a secret fund, revealed an Auditor General report. According to the report, MoIT was allocated Rs 1.329 billion of secret funds in the federal budget during 2009-10 and another Rs 1.422 billion during [...]

Telenor Pakistan has announced an increase of 5 paisas for all balance inquires. A note published on Telenor’s website said that Balance inquiry charge will change from ‘15 paisas’ to ‘20 paisas’ from May 30th, 2013. This change in balance inquiry charges will be applicable for all prepaid customers on following inquiry services: *111# *222# *444# *999# Earlier this week, Mobilink and Ufone had also [...]

Warid has announced the availability of collect call and SMS service for its prepaid and postpaid users. With collect call and SMS, unlike the usual paying mechanism, the call and SMS receiver pays the bill instead of calling party, and allows the calling party to make the outgoing call or SMS free of cost. The service is also available to Warid Roaming Subscribers which would [...]

Warid has been adding a lot of value, during recent months, for its subscribers through various value added service. While continuing its efforts, Warid today announced “Unblock Me”, an industry first, allowing the postpaid users to get their outgoing calls unblocked even when they reach their barring credit limit is reached. This often happens with postpaid subscribers that they reach their credit limit and hence their outgoing activity is [...]

Warid Employees along with Mr. Younas Sheikh, CCO, Warid Telecom, cutting the cake Warid Telecom today announced the completion of its eighth year of operations in Pakistan. Warid Telecom entered the Pakistani market in May 2005. Warid claims that its unique products and consistent advances in technology and services, company added its share to the Pakistani telecom sector, the economy and as a partner for [...]

While I am not sure that suspending mobile phone services for welcoming Li Keqiang, Chinese Prime  Minister, or for seeing him off again by suspending mobile phone services in Islamabad and Rawalpindi was any good or not, but I do believe that you – and your team – did all the necessary evaluations before taking this hard decision. I am sure you that you, and [...]