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NWFP Assembly Agreed to Ban Late Night Mobile Packages

11 March 2010

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According to Dunya News NWFP’s provincial assembly has also passed a resolution to put immediate ban on late night mobile packages. They also demanded ban on SMS packages too. Punjab Assembly passed a similar resolution but mobile companies are still offering night packages. Lets see how other provinces, and ultimately national assembly catch up the issue. Lets see [...]

PUSH Demands End to Unjustified Internet Censorship in Pakistan

11 March 2010

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There should be a list, publicly available on PTA website, of the banned websites in Pakistan along with the reason of the ban. There should also be a procedure to review the decisions of blocking such websites. This was demanded by Press United to Serve Humanity (PUSH), a Pakistan-based non-profit, non-governmental, and non-sectarian consortium of [...]

Telenor Karo Mumkin “Pakistan In Future”

11 March 2010

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Telenor Pakistan has just launched their “Karo Mumkin – Pakistan in future” campaign. The campaign inspires everyone to realize possibilities by sharing ideas about future Pakistan. The whole concept revolves around hope, inspiration and believing in the realization of possibilities. Telenor Pakistan has been a pioneer in innovation and a few months back, realized an incredible [...]

Warid Telecom Pakistan Appoints Muneer Farooqui New CEO

11 March 2010

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Warid Telecom (Pvt.) Ltd, the country’s most trusted and fastest growing cellular operator, announced that its Board of Directors have appointed Mr. Muneer Farooqui as company’s new Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Prior to the appointment he served as Chief Executive Officer of Warid Bangladesh. He has with him almost 20 years of experience mainly in [...]

Mobilink Recognized For Marketing Excellence

9 March 2010

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Mobilink, Pakistan’s market leader in cellular services and subsidiary of Orascom Telecom Holding, has been recognized for Marketing Excellence by the Marketing Association of Pakistan (MAP). The MAP Marketing Excellence Award for 2009 has been conferred upon Bilal Munir Sheikh, Vice President Marketing Mobilink for outstanding Performance in the field of Marketing & Management, and for [...]

Jazz TV Guide – Don’t Miss Your Favorite TV Shows Any More

9 March 2010

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Mobilink offers its subscribers amazing value added services at their finger tips. Keeping this tradition, Mobilink brings yet another exciting new service, ‘Jazz TV Guide’, for all the TV lovers out there. Jazz TV Guide offers amazing convenience and utility to Mobilink customers as the subscribers can access program [...]

PTCL Evo PCMCIA Card

8 March 2010

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PTCL Evo PCMCIA Card: As for all of you who are wondering about the title i.e. what on earth is an Evo PCMCIA card? Allow me to tell you that it is Aladdin’s magic carpet which will take you around the world on a magic ride. PTCL Evo Rocks! Not really ….. Not without an Evo [...]

Orascom Founder Says Company Will Have to Evolve to Survive

8 March 2010

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In the past decade, Orascom Telecom has grown from an Egyptian start-up to an international telecommunications giant that attracted more customers than any of its Middle East peers. The company rode the explosive growth of mobile phone use across Africa, the Middle East and the subcontinent, in combination with a strategy of making big investments into [...]

Now Facebook Mobile Alerts for Ufone Users

7 March 2010

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Facebook Mobile Alerts Ufone subscribers can now: Update their Facebook status Subscribe to friend’s status updates and reply to status updates Send & Receive a message to and from a friend Post a message on friend’s wall or receive wall messages from friends Add a friend Find email address of a friend Find information of a friend Poke a friend Undo status changes De-activate/Re-activate notifications on [...]

Mobilink Pays Tribute to Its Employees

5 March 2010

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A company is incomplete without its human core. It may be a building with high-tech equipment, it may be an entity with a hefty monetary value yet at its very heart, an organization breathes and lives every day through its workforce. All companies across the world realize the importance of human resource and the uniqueness [...]

Mobilink Recognized For Marketing Excellence

4 March 2010

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Mobilink, Pakistan’s market leader in cellular services and subsidiary of Orascom Telecom Holding, has been recognized for Marketing Excellence by the Marketing Association of Pakistan (MAP). The MAP Marketing Excellence Award for 2009 has been conferred upon Bilal Munir Sheikh, Vice President Marketing Mobilink for outstanding Performance in the field of Marketing & Management, and for [...]

Wasim Akram Welcomes Mobilink Jazz Cricket Experts

3 March 2010

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Mobilink Jazz, Pakistan’s favorite prepaid cellular brand organized an exciting event at Royal Palm Country Club, to enable the lucky winners of Jazz Cricket Experts contest to meet the cricket legends of Pakistan. At the event was present, Mobilink Brand Ambassador Wasim Akram along with Shahid Afridi and Abdul Razzaq, who enjoyed an interactive session with [...]

PTCL Advice to Public Exposes Its Inefficient Customer Services

3 March 2010

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Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) has advised its valued customers to contact its support team or Regional General Managers on email addresses in case their complaints are not addressed through 1218. PTCL’s announcement is infact confession of its inefficient customer services help line 1218. The success of service based companies depends on how effective and efficient [...]

Telenor Encourages Stealing Ideas in Tv Adverts

3 March 2010

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Whatever happened to originality? Why is there suddenly no creativity left amongst the ‘biggest and brightest’ in our industries and why do companies think they can get away with stealing ideas and concepts? I was astonished to watch the new Telenor Easy Paisa commercial on the television the other day. It is unbelievable that a company [...]

Telenor Pakistan IS0 27001:2005 Certified For Easypaisa Mobile Banking Services

3 March 2010

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Telenor Pakistan has become the first Telecom Operator in Pakistan to have received the prestigious ISO/IEC 27001:2005 certification for Information Security Management System (ISMS) for mobile banking services. After a robust and comprehensive ISO 27001 compliance audit performed by the Certification Body Moody International accredited by UKAS (United Kingdom Accreditation Services), the ISMS for [...]