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100 IDD Minutes for Rs. 121: Ufone

By | June 15, 2009 15 Comments

Now get a chance to talk for 100 minutes for international calls made to USA, UK, Germany, China and Canada for Rs. 121 (including taxes). For subscription SMS “SUB” to 711 To inquire about minutes consumed and balance available, dial *706# Note: In Germany and UK, this service is available on landlines only Calls will be charged on per minute basis Calls to NTS (UK) [...]

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Ufone Offers Bundle Handset in Rs. 1199

By | June 15, 2009 9 Comments

Ufone once again offers its bundle handset offer, for the second time. Previously, they had introduced this offer back in January 2009 – however then price was Rs. 999 as compared to Rs. 1199 this time. Apparently, the same handset (Huawei T206) is being offered – that comes with free balance of Rs. 50 each month for 4 months; monthly free balance will be added [...]

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20 Paisa Tax on Each SMS, GST Lowered to 19%, Sim Activation Tax Slashed to Half

By | June 13, 2009 120 Comments

Federal Budget year 2009-2010 didn’t bring exiting news for Telecom and IT industry. There are few major things that we want to communicate at this point of time 20 Paisa Tax is imposed on each SMS – killing all packages. Meaning that for subscriber, minimum price for an SMS would be 20 paisas (that will go into Govt’s pocket) GST has brought down to 19 [...]

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Get Budget Updates on Mobile Phone with Telenor

By | June 12, 2009 No Comments

To meet the growing interest and demand of keeping in touch with the budget speech and highlights, Telenor offer its customers an opportunity to get important budget information on phone via Telenor Akhbaar 7775. With budget around the corner, simply dial 7775 to get to know all the updates and news, customers can also SMS “Budget” to 345. Call charges Rs. 3+ tax/ minute; SMS [...]

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Aamir Ibrahim Replaces Irfan Wahab at Telenor Pakistan

By | June 12, 2009 6 Comments

As we had anticipated, Aamir Ibrahim has joined Telenor by replacing Mr. Irfan Wahab Khan, who will take on a new and bigger role in the areas of Group Strategy and New Business Development at Telenor Corporate Headquarters in Oslo from August 24th. After Ronny Naevdal, head of strategy at Telenor returned back to Norway, Telenor Pakistan has merged Strategy and Corporate Affairs and Aamir [...]

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ProPakistani.Com is now in top 100 Web Sites visited in Pakistan

By | June 12, 2009 41 Comments

Thank you everyone – EVERY ONE, who helped us achieve this landmark in just one year – as Alexa says that ProPakistani.Com is now ranked in top 100 websites visited by Pakistanis. We will take this achievement to further strengthen our commitment towards our readers. We will work even harder to bring the latest from Industry. So keep guiding us!

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Mobilink Employees Should Expect Bonuses, in fact Handshakes

By | June 12, 2009 No Comments

Post by Jazzy We are told by reliable sources at Mobilink, that company is planning bonuses for its workforce. On other hands there is a bad news that non-performers may see the exit door along with handshake. Employees with 1 year service will be compensated with 1 gross salary, two years service holders will get 2 gross salaries and so on. Mobilink spokesperson simply denied [...]

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Government Wants Increased SMS rates for Reduced Taxes

By | June 12, 2009 No Comments

Government of Pakistan, finance ministry to be exact, has communicated Telecom companies this Monday to increase SMS rates in order to get reduced taxes, told us high-ups at telecom companies – plus it was also reported by ‘The News’ yesterday. However, telecom companies are firm that they will not increase SMS rates, as text messages share significant revenues in their balance sheets. However, we know [...]

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Zong Offers Free Airtime for 1 year for MNP Users

By | June 11, 2009 33 Comments

While the telecom industry shifts its attention towards acquiring customers from other networks, Zong has drawn first blood by coming up with a biggest ever MNP campaign that not only explains exactly what MNP means but also has given potential customers multiple reasons to shift to Zong. This campaign is bold, yet simple, explanation of the MNP concept is sure to score well with customers [...]

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Djuice Brings Weekly SMS Packages

By | June 11, 2009 74 Comments

Djuice has introduced new SMS packages with 1 week validity Subscription Fee No Of SMS Validity Rs. 7 700 7 Days Rs. 19.99 1000 7 Days Rs. 39.99 2500 7 Days Prices are exclusive of taxes. Offer validity is for 7 days i.e. if the subscription to the SMS package is done on the 1st of June, the subscription will expire on the 7th of [...]

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Nokia Working on Charge-less Mobile Phone

By | June 11, 2009 8 Comments

In order to attain charger less world, Nokia is working on a mobile phone that would be charged wirelessly through ambient radio signals that are available in atmosphere. Markku Rouvala, a researcher from the Nokia Research Centre, in Cambridge, U.K told MIT’s Technology Review that ambient electromagnetic radiation – emitted from Wi-Fi transmitters, cell-phone antennas, TV masts, and other sources – could be converted into [...]

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Telecom Sector to be Disallowed Input Tax Adjustment

By | June 11, 2009 2 Comments

The government has decided to disallow input tax adjustment facility to the telecommunication sector in the coming budget for 2009-10. Business recorder reported that rate of federal excise duty on telecom sector would be reduced from 21 to 16 percent. However, this reduction would be linked with abolition of input tax adjustment facility. The analysis of telecom sector shows that the telecom service providers have [...]

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Globitel and Warid Sign Agreement For Mobile Traffic Steering

By | June 10, 2009 No Comments

Globitel recently announced that it has signed a contract with Warid, under which Globitel has provided them with the Intelligent Traffic Steering Solution Intelligent Traffic Steering provides mobile operators with dynamic remote control over the visited mobile network (VPMN) selection process, enabling them to steer proactively their outbound roamers to preferred networks. This quality and feature-rich solution allows operators to control network selection according to [...]

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Ufone Activates Utunes without Customers' Consent

By | June 10, 2009 17 Comments

Apparently Ufone activated Utunes on thousands of numbers without customers’ consent and informing them via SMS that they will get Utunes free for one month – and they can un-subscribe by sending this and this message to this number. We don’t have details if Ufone activted Utunes on all Ufone numbers, or if they are activating them in phases. When one of our reader called [...]

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PTA to Develop SIM Information System

By | June 10, 2009 17 Comments

Mobile sector of Pakistan has observed an astonishing growth since last five years. Subscribers have been purchasing mobile SIMs via mobile operators’ service outlets, retailers and authorized franchises. There had been no restriction on number of SIMs to be registered under a specific CNIC as a result – subscribers bought/registered more than one SIMs against their CNICs. The situation has lead to a security concern [...]

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