Telenor has lately introduced 500MB GPRS bundle for those Djuice prepaid customers who want higher data transfers on their cell phones. Price: Telenor Djuice customers can avail this 500MB GPRS package for Rs 250 per month. Just to mention, there’s no tax on any GPRS/EDGE package. This GPRS bundle is not available for Telenor talkshawk prepaid customers. Activation: Dial *345*904# from your Djuice to avail [...]

Telenor Group, in a latest development, has bought 234,000,000 VimpelCom preferred shares from Weather Investments for US$374,400,000, to increase its voting rights at VimpelCom from 25.01 percent to 36.36 percent and to become majority stake holder in VimpelCom, said a statement issued by the Telenor Group. Just to recall, Mr. Naguib Sawiris and his family last year bought 29.63 percent stakes in VimpelCom through Weather Investments [...]

Read this post in Urdu Telenor Pakistan has reportedly filed separate lawsuits against Nokia Siemens Network and Huawei Pakistan, told us sources familiar with the development. According to the details we have received the matter was moved to court for arbitration over a dispute in an agreement between Huawei Pakistan and Telenor Pakistan. Our source tells us that according to the agreement, Huawei was supposed [...]

Read this post in Urdu Telenor Pakistan is going to increase service charges on card reloads/easy-loads to 7 percent, said a notice available on Telenor’s website. New services charges will be applicable from February 15th, 2012. Website notes: Increase in surcharge deducted from recharge Dear Customer, kindly note that the surcharge being deducted from recharge will be increased to 7% with effect from 15th Feb [...]

Telenor Pakistan, as part of its Karo Mumkin initiative, is helping provide 10,000 paper notebooks to school children belonging to low income families. The notebooks are made from recycled waste paper by Sabz, an NGO founded by Fariha Ambreen, who had won Telenor’s Karo Mumkin campaign. The two winning ideas out of 25,000 total ideas submitted to Karo Mumkin were funded by Telenor Pakistan with [...]

Telenor Pakistan posted 20 percent growth in local currency for overall revenues which stood at Rs. 20.20billion (NOK 1,343) during fourth quarter of 2011, up from Rs. 17.27 billion (NOK 1,173) during the same period a year ahead. Financial results said that increase in revenues were mainly due to increase in mobile subscriptions and higher ARPU, which grew 3 percent in local currency as a [...]

Read this post in Urdu Youth brand Djuice recognized the students’ efforts at ‘breaking the silence – Khamoshi ka Boycott’. All the students are poor and belong to far-flung areas but had secured more than 90% marks in their Matriculation examination by instilling in themselves a drive for a better tomorrow. Each student was awarded a handset along with a Djuice SIM with free airtime [...]

A security guard and receptionist was killed when unidentified gunmen opened fire at Telenor’s franchise in the Nazimabad area of Karachi on Tuesday, reported Express Tribune. At around 12:52pm, two armed men in shalwar kameez, entered the Telenor outlet and opened fire at the staffers before escaping within five minutes. As a result, Faiza, 25, security guard Mazhar Butt were shot dead while salesman Mansoor, [...]

Read this post in Urdu In line with current trends, Telenor has announced this 20 second offer with flat tariff for any network. Offer is available for almost all prepaid packages and comes with a  daily charges of Rs. 1 or Rs. 2.99 depending on what base package you are using. Keep reading for more details: Tariff Details: Note: Telenor says that this is an [...]

By Tehniat of KoolMuzone The recent advertisement for Telenor TalkShawk shows Fawad Khan (yes, the recent heartthrob of the Pakistani women) as the ambassador for TalkShawk. Fawad Khan’s become quite a star due to his recent work in a couple of television serials, specially ‘Humsafar‘. Seemingly Telenor is in effort to get its talkshawk brand rolling after it lost Ali Zafar to Mobilink. Fawad Afzal [...]

Read this post in Urdu Telenor Pakistan has doubled the subscription charges for Poora Pakistan Offer, that allows unlimited free on-net calling between 9 PM to 6 PM next day. Earlier the subscription charges for the package were Rs. 7 plus tax per day, which are now increased to Rs. 15 per day or Rs. 17.92 including taxes. To avail this offer, customers are suppose [...]

Read this post in Urdu It appears that cellular companies have started pulling the plug for various popular prepaid tariff plans. No wonder the price war had hit its optimum limit. Telenor has revised its 30 seconds package, in fact the package has been taken back and a new tariff plan with charging pulse of 1 minute will be in place from January 27th, 2012 [...]

Read this post in Urdu After we uncovered in July 2011 about initial funding used to establish Easypaisa, it is now learned that Telenor has received another grant, valuing US 6.5 million dollars or Rs. 585 million, for stretching the reach of easypaisa services. This fund, granted by Bill and Malinda Gates Foundation under its global development program, is said to be used to accelerate [...]

Director Corporate Communications & Responsibility, Telenor Pakistan, Anjum Nida Rahman, has resigned from her position to get back to journalism. She had resigned on Friday and will be leaving Telenor Pakistan by end of January 2012. Anjum expressed satisfaction with her tenure at Telenor Pakistan, “Fifteen months in Telecommunications feels like a lifetime. I have learnt the nuts and bolts of this industry and I [...]

Pakistani mobile phone users exchanged 175.4 billion text messages in 2010, up from 151 billion text messages in 2009, showing a 15.66% growth in number of total SMSes exchanged, said a reported prepared by PTA. On the contrary, number of cellular subscribers increased by mere 5.1% to reach 102.78 million by end-2010. Report estimates total revenues generated from SMS in year 2010 was approximately Rs. [...]