Pakistan Muslim League (N), through Senator Ishaq Dar, has registered a complaint with Election Commission of Pakistan against Telenor Pakistan for supporting a specific political party without naming it. PML (N), in a letter to ECP, said that Telenor Pakistan has allocated funds for promoting and funding the election campaign of a political party. In response, SECP has sought Telenor Pakistan’s response on the complaint [...]

Telenor Pakistan reported flat revenues with marginal increase in revenues during first quarter 2013. In its group financial report, Telenor said that its Pakistani operations generated Rs. 22.40 billion during first three months of 2013, slightly up from Rs. 21.73 billion it had generated during same duration last year showing a growth of mere 3 percent. Telenor said that growth in revenues was mainly impacted [...]

Telenor has announced to change charging pulse rate from 30 seconds to one minute for its professional postpaid plans. According to information available on Telenor’s official website, call pulse and charging rate for all professional postpaid plans will be revised to one minute from April 30th, 2013. Along with, off-net and on-net call rates are also revised as following: On-net Price = Rs. 1.2/min + [...]

Telenor is currently airing Angootha Chalaoo TVC under the banner of djuice, company’s youth brand, to make the youth understand the importance of casting their vote in the upcoming election. Campaign – that is capitalizing the on-going election spree – is getting mixed reviews with both positive and negative feedback coming from various circles. Telenor believes that campaign is an effort to inject positivity and [...]

Telenor has announced Duplicate Phonebook service, a java based mobile app service which allows Telenor subscribers to save their contacts remotely on a secure location. With this service Telenor customers can save their contacts and restore them when-ever they want to. This service can be handy for those who have more than 200 contacts, and they keep on changing their handsets. Main Features: Backup contacts  [...]

Telenor’s Easypaisa and UBL Omni have been identified as a sprinters in a Global survey by the GSMA’s Mobile Money for the Unbanked (MMU) programme. The survey, titled Global Mobile Money Adoption Survey, analysed the state of the mobile money industry in 2012 and illustrates key findings from the programme’s Mobile Money Deployment Tracker, a database that monitors the number of live and planned mobile [...]

Telenor has quietly revised almost every talkshawk package by either increasing rates or by completely removing the package from the offering. For example, Talkshawk A1, Talkshawk 30 second package and various others are now not available in the list. Similarly Calling rates for Talkshwak 63 package are now 75 paisas per 30 secs, while Poora Pakistan 24 Hours offer is now charged at Rs. 15 [...]

Telenor’s on-going network modernization project, which has reportedly caused disruption in service quality and availability – as we discussed in the past – is going to get completed by year end, said Gyorgy Koller, Chief Technology Officer, Telenor Pakistan in an interview with ProPakistani. During this interview with Gyorgy Koller, ProPakistani tried to figure out the current state of the network up-gradation project, its scope, [...]

Telenor Pakistan has announced the commencement of its Summer Internship Program 2013. Telenor says that it has re-designed its internship program this year to not only train the interns for the corporate world but also to sieve talent to create ‘Talent Pools’ for entry level positions in the company. Telenor said that its Internship program for 2013 is open for the cities of Islamabad, Lahore, [...]

Easypaisa recently organized a workshop on financial inclusion in Islamabad. A number of microfinance institutions and non-government organizations participated in the workshop to discuss the industry trends and future demands. Participants lauded the role of easypaisa for offering convenient and secure mobile money services to the unbanked communities. In the picture, easypaisa team is present along with the participants of the workshop.

Gabor Kocsis, will be taking over as Chief Financial Officer, Telenor Pakistan while Karl Erik Broten, currently Chief Financial Officer Telenor Pakistan, will be joining DiGi Malaysia as CFO. Telenor Pakistan confirmed that both these changes will be effective from 15 May 2013. Gabor Kocsis has 17 years of financial management experience. He has been associated with Telenor since 1993, working in Hungary, Serbia and [...]

Affan Haider, who has been with communication department of Telenor Pakistan for last five years, has now resigned from his position to peruse his career further. Sources close to this development confirmed ProPakistani about Affan’s resignation and said that he is likely to go abroad for career growth. Affan, a communication expert, was the oldest member of Telenor’s communication department and has headed the public [...]

Telenor Pakistan’s corporate responsibility initiative Telenor Hum Qadam has won the 7th CSR National Excellence Award under the category of ‘employee engagement’, sponsored by Xcelerate Management Consultants UK, during a ceremony organized by the CSR Association of Pakistan in Karachi. The award recognized Telenor Pakistan for its commitment towards embedding sustainable thinking into organizational culture and in the process, supporting communities, especially in the areas [...]

Recently aired djuice TVC – for unlimited calls to 15 FnF numbers except 6PM to 10PM – was today confronted by pinching and taunting TV and Radio adverts from Ufone. Djuice offer, which it claims to be specifically tailored for youth, allows unlimited calling to 15 friend and family numbers during off-peak hours (exclusion window: 6PM to 10PM) for a daily charge of Rs. 8 [...]

Telenor Pakistan is airing a new TVC for its unlimited call offer, that is available to all djuice customers. Before we go into further details, let’s have a look at the TVC that we are talking about: And here is the art work that Telenor is using to promote the offer. We have copied this creative from Facebook page of djuice and pasted below for [...]