Pakistan Telecommunication Authority is usually responsible for keeping an eye on quality of service that cellular and other telecom operators provide. Because regulator is almost dysfunctional (for last many months now) the falling service quality of cellular operators has reached to a point that it has started causing serious annoyance for mobile phone users in the country. This is true for almost every operator in [...]

At a time when sale of SIMs is banned on retail outlets, Telenor Pakistan has announced an online new SIM booking and Mobile Number Portability (MNP) with home delivery facility called ‘SIM Delivery Service’. The customers would now be able to book, purchase and join Telenor Pakistan’s network from the comfort of their homes. Using this service, customers can now conveniently book their Telenor Pakistan [...]

In the fourth quarter of 2012, Telenor Pakistan reported revenues of PKR 22.78 billion (NOK 1,421 million), up from 20.20 billion (NOK 1,343 million) in Q4 2011, representing a revenue growth of 17%, mainly due to increased number of subscribers and the benefits of ICH. The EBITDA margin improved by 2 percentage points mainly due to revenue growth and positive contribution from financial services and [...]

Irfan Wahab Khan will be taking over as Chief Marketing Officer, Telenor Pakistan while Aamir Ibrahim, currently Chief Marketing Officer, Telenor Pakistan will join Telenor Group, said a press statement issued by the company. Both of these changes will be effective from 1 April 2013. Irfan Wahab Khan has a long association with Telenor Pakistan being the first member of the startup team when he [...]

Aamer Izhar Ul Haq, Vice President at Telenor Pakistan and Chief Corporate Affairs Officer, has resigned today, we have confirmed with sources. Telenor Pakistan has also confirmed Aamer’s resignation. Atifa Asghar, Director Communications and Public Relations at Telenor said that Aamer Izhar ul haq, vice president corporate affairs, telenor Pakistan has decided to move on for personal reasons. Aamer’s last working day at Telenor will be [...]

Telenor Pakistan has been ranked as the top employer in the country amongst various sectors, as per the survey conducted by ROZEE.PK in collaboration with Yougov, a leading a leading global opinion pollster based in UK. Compensation & benefits, brand image, career growth, better work environment and social responsibility were the factors for selection of Telenor Pakistan as the most preferred employer. In the industry [...]

Under Telenor Pakistan’s employee volunteerism program, Telenor Hum Qadam, Six Hundred and Ninety Three Telenor Pakistan employees contributed 5,000 hours of community service last year. Living up to the spirit of community development, Telenor Hum Qadam volunteers contributed their time towards four focus areas, which include disability awareness, education, health and environment. Speaking about the employee contribution, Vice President Corporate Affairs Telenor Pakistan, Aamer Izhar [...]

As expected, Telenor Pakistan has announced that it will increase tariff for two of its most used Talkshawk packages. According to the announcement, call rates for Talkshawk Economy and Talkshawk 24 Hours will be revised from January 18th, 2013. As per Telenor’s official website, new rates for Talkshawk Economy and Talkshawk 24 Hrs will be as following: TS 24 TS Economy Current New Call Rate [...]

A hacker from Pakistan yesterday unveiled a critical vulnerability in Telenor Pakistan’s website that could be exploited to find out handset related information of Telenor’s entire customer base. Instead of mis-using this vulnerability in Telenor’s system, the hacker decided to report the bug to Telenor Pakistan — through ProPakistani — which was eventually fixed by Telenor later in the evening. Through this specific security flaw anyone, with [...]

2012 remained bumpy for Telecom Sector, especially for the cellular mobile sector. Price war, lowering ARPUs, devaluating currency, energy crisis and tough economic situations persisted throughout year to give the industry a tough time. Saturating market, cellular suspensions, hard and at times vicious regulatory decisions worsened the year for telecom service providers. In such situations, here are our predictions for 2013 for Telecom and Broadband [...]

اسے اردو میں پڑھیے In line with its commitment to make the lives easier for the people of Pakistan, easypaisa has started offering its EasyPay Corporate Solution to Bata Pakistan’s customers nationwide. A contract signing ceremony was organized at Bata Pakistan’s headquarters in Lahore recently. Picture shows: Roar Bjaerum, Vice President, Financial Services, Telenor Pakistan shaking hands with Muhammad Imran Malik, Managing Director, Bata Pakistan. [...]

اسے اردو میں پڑھیے Telenor Pakistan is offering all its prepaid customers a special call rate for calling landline line numbers in UK. Under this promotion, all Djuice and Talkshawk customers can make calls to UK landline numbers for Rs. 7.99 per 15 minutes. Offer Details: Call Rate: Rs. 7.99 plus tax per 15 min Validity: 24 Hours Subscription: No Subscription Required Price Plans: Available [...]

اسے اردو میں پڑھیے Telenor Pakistan has announced that it is increasing rates for new and replacement SIMs. A note published on Telenor website says that new SIM charges, which are increased by Rs. 100, will be applicable from December 11th, 2012. After this increase in rates, a regular SIM, which was earlier charged at Rs. 100, will be sold at Rs. 200 now. Here [...]

Telenor Pakistan and Teradata has entered into an agreement, under which Teradata will offer Telenor Pakistan to extend its Business Analytics to new areas of its business, said a statement issued by the firm. A Teradata customer since 2005, Telenor Pakistan has been in the forefront of using Data Warehouse and Analytics within Pakistan. Fifth to enter the market they are now the second-largest mobile [...]

اسے اردو میں پڑھیے Mobile phone subscribers in Pakistan reached 120.5 million mark in September 2012. According to stats published by Pakistan Telecommunication Authority, total base of cellular subscribers in Pakistan stood at 120,513,430 subscriptions as of September 30th, 2012. PTA said that cellular tele-density reached 68.3 percent, down from 68.5 percent in July 2012. Mobilink still tops the market with 36,073,988 subscribers while Warid [...]