Telenor International, the Norwegian mobile operator, acquires 67.25% controlling, Unitech Wireless for $1.23bn in order to expand its services in the Indian telecom market. Unitech Wireless secures telecom licences to operate in all of India’s 22 telecommunication circles and also holds 13 start-up spectrums in 13 circles.

We have been following Telenor’s Blackberry Launch for quite some time now – This time the news is that Telenor’s Blackberry handsets are now available at Customer Service Centers for users – though commercial launch is expected in 4th week of April, 2009. How to Get Telenor Blackberry? One way is to get a new postpaid connection, with what you will be offered to opt [...]

Telenor Pakistan participated in ‘Mobile Commerce 2009 – The 2nd International Conference on Mobile Banking’. The conference discussed the prospects of mobile commerce in Pakistan. Telenor Pakistan, already ahead of the telecommunications industry after acquiring Tameer Bank, is set to lead mobile banking in Pakistan. President & CEO, Jon Eddy Abdullah was one of the speakers at the conference. Speaking on this occasion Jon Eddy [...]

Universal Service Fund and Telenor have entered into a Rs. 930 Million contract to provide basic telephony and data services to the population in the yet un-served areas of Mirpur Khas “Lot”, consisting of un-served areas in, Sanghar, Tharparkar Umerkot and Mirpur Khas districts. A simple contract signing ceremony between Telenor and USF Co. was held in Islamabad marking launch of new telecom services to [...]

Telenor is on with another offer for its TalkShawk Packages with 6 minutes FREE after EVERY 6 minutes on all calls with on-net Friend and Family numbers. Meaning that “After every 6 minutes during the call, the next 6 minutes will be free” This offer is available for: TalkShawk 30 Sec TalkShawk Har Min TalkShawk Har Sec How to Subscribe: No activation is required for [...]

Telenor Pakistan awarded retailers from six regions of Pakistan a prize money of Rs. 1,000,000 through a lucky draw under its ‘Easyload Retailer Millionaire Scheme’. Thousands of mobile phones were also distributed amongst retail partners. 150,000 retailers from all over the country had a chance to become eligible for the lucky draw by boosting their sale by 10% in the following month. The scheme was [...]

Guest Post by Haseeb Ch While reading some interesting articles on ProPakistani last week about the Paisa and VAS War at peak in the Cellular companies’, I came across some very interesting Competition campaigns which starting gearing up earlier this month. Reportedly, Telenor Pakistan has initiated this campaign in far flung but populous cities of Pakistan, such as Rahim Yar Khan, which is located at [...]

We have discussed before about Telenor going Blackberry, for which we are still waiting – but today we are going to disclose blackberry devices that Telenor will offer after its launch. So note down handsets and their models BlackBerry Perl Flip 8220 Blackberry Perl 8120 BlackBerry Curve 8900 BlackBerry Curve 8320 BlackBerry Bold 9000 Apparently, Telenor has got the same package as of Ufone and [...]

Telenor has fine tuned their postpaid packages, with opt-in add-ons available for all postpaid packages. These add-ons include prorated SMS, Voice, GPRS, Unlimited Weekend Calling and Money for Money offerings. Add-on details are pretty explanatory as mentioned in above shot. So just select your add-on and subscribe to it. For more details on all these add-ons click here or call your help line

We have seen Telenor Pakistan’s innovation and creativity for their products, services and advertising campaigns, but it would be interesting for you to know that the company has exercised the same level of creativity in developing their way of work. Telenor Pakistan has successfully invented a unique, new and a workable way to carry forward their operations with a key focus on quality and simplicity, [...]

Norway based, Telenor Group has reported a slide in fourth-quarter profits to NOK 2.21 billion (US$330 million), from NOK 7.63 billion (US$1.13 billion) a year earlier. The decline was due to one-off gains in 2007 no longer appearing on the accounts. Sales rose 11 percent to NOK 26.36 billion (US$3.393 billion). “The overall trends seen in the third quarter continued into the fourth quarter with [...]

Telenor Pakistan has selected Acision SMSC to expand its messaging capacity to cater for continued SMS traffic growth. With a capacity expansion of up to 250%, TelenorPakistan is preparing itself to meet the messaging requirements of its fast growing subscriber base. The Pakistan mobile market is experiencing rapid subscriber growth with thousands of customers signing up every month. The growth in subscriber rate has consequently [...]

Reality bites recently discussed future of postpaid market in Pakistan, where he had mentioned the rumors that cellular companies are working out plans for postpaid market. And it turned out true as Ufone revised their packages, and today Telenor brought forward new calling plans for postpaid users. Early feedback about Telenor’s new postpaid package is that they are simple, pleasant and doable. A new idea [...]

Telenor Pakistan launched its second annual Corporate Responsibility (CR) Report 2008 in a ceremony held in Islamabad.  The report presents the company’s contribution to the social and economic development of the society. At the event, social sector partners praised Telenor Pakistan’s community initiatives. The report was unveiled by CEO and President Telenor Pakistan Jon Eddy Abdullah before media at the event. Distinguished guests included Vice [...]

Telenor Pakistan has completed all preparations for implementation of verification based SIM activation regime. Chairman PTA, Dr. Mohammad Yaseen visited Telenor Pakistan’s Call Center in Lahore today to witness the process and see the state of the art purpose built system in action. Sale of pre-activated SIMs shall be stopped by January 31, 2009, thereafter verification of Computerized National Identity Card (CNIC) & activation of [...]