Police was able to catch and kill the man they believe masterminded recent attacks on Telenor and Mobilink franchises in Karachi, reported Express Tribune. After investigations the law enforcement agencies have maintained that TTP (Tehreek-e-Talibaan Pakistan) was responsible for the attacks on telco franchises. Reportedly TTP had been demanding extortion in the billions of rupees from certain big businesses, but the breakthrough came after attacks [...]

With a vision to cater to the lower segment of the market, Nokia Pakistan and Djuice have joined hands to start a series of Developer Workshops that aim to provide training focused on S40 devices. The first workshop in this chain was held at Telenor regional office (Karachi) where Tony Torp, Nokia External Trainer shared the details of development tools available to develop mobile apps [...]

Read this post in Urdu Telenor has gone aggressive to beat LBC offers by other operators; for one month at least. For the first time, Telenor has offered network wide unlimited free calls. Till February 10th 2012, Telenor is offering its customers to make free unlimited calls to all on-net numbers in Pakistan. Telenor 24 Hours Package holders can make unlimited free calls (excluding 6 [...]

Mobile phone users in Pakistan were recorded at 111,126,434 in October 2011, reaching a tele-density of 65.2 percent, reported Pakistan Telecommunication Authority in its latest stats. PTA last declared these stats in June 2011 when mobile phone users’ count stood at 108,894,518 with teledensity of 64.8 percent. According to stats, Mobilink leads the market with 33,537,922 subscribers, followed by Telenor with 27,607,043 subscribers till October [...]

Read this post in Urdu In less than two weeks after armed men walked into a Telenor franchise and opened fire on staff, another telecommunication company was attacked yesterday. On Monday, a Mobilink franchise was targeted with an explosive device (most probably a grenade) leaving four staff members injured, reported Express Tribune. Earlier on December 23, two men entered a Telenor franchise and opened fire [...]

Activity in cellular industry during 2011 remained high but we hardly saw any new innovation happening during this period. In fact mobile phone operators remained busy with their continued strategies from yester years; price war worsened the margins while energy crisis did the rest to push operators to their limits to actually impose extra charges on cellular services (twice in case of Mobilink) to save [...]

Read this post in Urdu In countries like United States, businesses and generally corporate sector supporting political campaigns through donations is in practice for long. However, at times questions are raised when these corporations start influencing in policy making for the their respective sectors/domains. To prevent this situation many countries have legislated terms for political financing to make sure that businesses are not benefited above [...]

Read this post in Urdu ZTE has won a several hundred million dollar contract for Telenor Pakistan’s country wide end-to-end network swap by ousting Nokia Siemens Network, we have confirmed with sources. Telenor Pakistan has reportedly decided in principle to get ZTE’s services for replacing its entire access and core network infrastructure throughout the country. After this contract ZTE will become sole vendor for Telenor [...]

Asasah has become the first NGO and micro-finance institution (MFI) to utilize Telenor Pakistan and Tameer Microfinance Bank’s Easypaisa services for repayment of small loans. The facility will significantly reduce the inconvenience for Asasah’s clients, who are mostly women, to pay back the loans they take out from the NGO. Asasah customers, after receiving a loan from any of Tameer Bank’s 100 branches will be [...]

An awareness walk was held today with the aim to promote a better understanding of disability issues and to raise awareness among the public about the rights of persons with disabilities. Telenor Pakistan sponsored the event as part of its Khuddar Pakistan program to commemorate International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD), which is held every year on December 3. Major partners of the walk [...]

The World Economic Forum global report on Mobile Financial Services gave extensive coverage to Pakistan praising the country for its fast developing branchless banking infrastructure. Pakistan has been declared as a breeding ground of innovation for branchless banking and has been successful in developing a variety of business models involving a wide range of players, including mobile network operators (MNOs), technology companies and even courier [...]

Read this post in Urdu Telenor International today announced that it has partnered with Google to launch store-in-store for Telenor’s Android users to access selected suite of relevant apps inside a fixed destination on the front page of Android Market. As part of this agreement Telenor customers, in all 11 operating countries, will be able to pay for apps via their mobile operator to make [...]

Tameer Microfinance Bank and Telenor Pakistan will provide money transfer services through Easypaisa channels to hundreds of pensioners registered with Employees Old-Aged Benefits (EOBI). Nadeem Hussain, CEO Tameer Microfinance Bank, revealed this in an interview with ProPakistani correspondent. He said the Tameer Bank will be signing the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the project with EOBI official shortly to initiate the first ever project of [...]

Read this post in Urdu Like we reported before, PTA earlier in September/October 2011 had launched this SMS based consumer perception survey for cellular companies to measure consumer’s perception about services of five mobile phone operators. PTA is issuing the results for the said survey tomorrow morning through full page supplements (paid textual content that is published in papers; usually at the end). But we [...]

Telenor Pakistan in a statement today announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Mr. Lars Christian Iuel (47) as the company’s new Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Mr. Lars Chistian has previously served Telenor Pakistan as Chief Marketing Officer for three years. He takes up the position on November 1st, succeeding Mr. Christian Albech (64) who will retire after 20 years of service to Telenor. [...]