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 [...]

اسے اردو میں پڑھیے Muhammad Malick of Dunya TV recently did a talk show on new measures taken by government of Pakistan to curb terrorism in the country. These measures include the blanket ban on sale of SIMs on retail stores, ban on sale of SIMs in KPK, ban on MNP and others. Malick had guests from PTA and telecom industry to talk about the [...]

اسے اردو میں پڑھیے Telenor Pakistan has said that it has been ranked as the most socially devoted brand on Facebook in Pakistan for the month of October. Telenor claimed this citing a study that was carried out by Socialbakers, a global social media and digital analytics company with customers in 75 countries. According to the Q3 regional report released by Socialbakers, Telenor Pakistan’s Corporate [...]

Telenor Pakistan has launched a nationwide Corporate Responsibility initiative Telenor Hum Qadam which is an employee volunteerism program under which Telenor Pakistan employees will volunteer a maximum of 16 working hours to community service activities during the year. Building on the initiative that started in 2011, under which Telenor Pakistan’s employees contributed 45,000 hours towards community service, the primary focus areas of Telenor Hum Qadam [...]

Following Ufone, Telenor Pakistan has introduced low-price tariff plans for Blackberry users in Pakistan. With limited functionality, Blackberry Social and Blackberry Complete by Telenor offers BIS services and unlimited internet (with fair usage policy in place) for Rs. 350 and Rs. 650 per month respectively. These new packages are available for Telenor Postpaid customers only. With limited features, new discounted blackberry plans are seemingly aimed [...]

Telenor Pakistan djuice Apportunity competition ended with an award distribution ceremony this Saturday in Karachi. Apportunity invited students from different universities to create mobile phone applications (apps) in different categories. This year Apportunity attracted 1700 plus registrations from top eight universities across Pakistan. 83 apps were published and promoted for almost three months. The winners were selected on the basis of most downloaded apps. The [...]

Telenor Pakistan has reported 11% growth in revenues in local currency mainly due to increased subscription base and usage levels amid decreased ARPU (Average Revenue per User) due to government directed service suspensions on two occasions. Telenor group in its quarterly financial report said that Telenor Pakistan generated a total of Rs. 21.62 billion, up from Rs. 19.35 billion during the same period a year [...]

Growth in number of subscribers and Average Revenue per User (ARPU) are indicators of how fast telecom revenues are growing in a market relative to subscribers. In Pakistan, like most emerging markets, the subscriber base grew exponentially however the revenues of telecom operators didn’t go up in same proportion. Keep reading to know why! Pakistan’s telecom market, in past 4-5 years at least, is largely [...]

Easypaisa, on its third anniversary, announced that its customers carried away 83 million transactions valuing Rs. 178 billion in initial three years of service. Telenor Pakistan and Tameer Microfinance bank had jointly launched Easypaisa, a mobile banking solution for masses, on October 15th, 2009. An event was organized in Karachi yesterday to mark the third anniversary of service, where Easypaisa also announced the launch of [...]