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Mobilink Reaches Out to 65,000 Flood Affectees

2 September 2010

Mobilink, Pakistan’s market leader in cellular services and a part of Orascom Telecom Holding, is rapidly expanding the outreach of its flood relief efforts and continues to deliver healthy food and basic necessities to flood victims across the country. The efforts are being channeled through the Mobilink Foundation using the Rs 85 million pledged Mobilink [...]

Telenor Pakistan Receives Rs68 Million From DTAC Thailand For Flood relief

31 August 2010

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Telenor Group’s operating company DTAC Thailand handed over a cheque of Rs68 million to Telenor Pakistan here today as its contribution toward the ongoing flood relief efforts. To announce the donation a press conference was organized by Telenor Pakistan at a local hotel. Present on the occasion from Telenor Pakistan were Aamir Ibrahim, Vice President [...]

Mobilink Jazz Gives Away 3 Cars & Air-Tickets

31 August 2010

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Mobilink, Pakistan’s market leader in cellular services and a part of Orascom Telecom Holding, presented the 6 lucky winners of the Jazz “Zabardast Recharge Offer” with three 1,800 cc cars and three air-tickets to any global destination of their choice. Mobilink Jazz, Pakistan’s premier prepaid brand with more than 30 million users, launched the Zabardast [...]

PTCL Offering Most Suitable Package For Its Employees Despite Any Obligation

31 August 2010

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Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd (PTCL) after privatization is a privately run organization, which follows private sector practices for the betterment of its employees. The current announcement by the Government of Pakistan for the raise of salaries by 50% does not apply to PTCL. However, keeping in mind the inflation and employees’ well being, PTCL has [...]

Easypaisa Launches “International Home Transfer” Service

30 August 2010

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Tameer Microfinance Bank and Telenor Pakistan made another addition to the bouquet of easypaisa services with the launch of ‘International Home Transfer’ in collaboration with Xpress Money, UK. This service adds on to the existing domestic remittance service Money Transfer by providing international home remittances receiving facility in Pakistan. The latest easypaisa service can be [...]

Telecom Sector to Spend Rs 2.3bn on Infrastructure

29 August 2010

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Landline and cellular operators’ expenses to repair damaged infrastructure are likely to cross Rs 2.3 billion in flood-hit areas across the country. Heavy rains and flash floods have destructed the network infrastructure of telecom operators unprecedentedly in different telecom regions of the country. The initial assessment report prepared by Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunication [...]

Telenor Pakistan Continues to Assist Flood-Hit Families

27 August 2010

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Following the country’s most devastating floods ever, Telenor Pakistan continues to work with its field partner Pakistan Red Crescent Society to assist in the flood relief efforts. Telenor Pakistan has handed over to PRCS 60% of the pledged Rs100 million to enable it to provide immediate relief goods to those most affected. PRCS has identified [...]

PTCL Launches Bill Collection Counters at Ufone Customer Services Centers

26 August 2010

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Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd (PTCL) has launched its bill collection at Ufone Customer Services Centers (UCSC) to facilitate its valued customers. This new facility would be in addition to already existing 84 bill collection points, operating through various one stop shops, walk in centres/revenue offices of PTCL in various cities of the country. Muhammed Nematullah [...]

PTA Chairman Presented Cheque of Rs 6.5Lakh in PM Flood Relief Fund

25 August 2010

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Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani on Wednesday urged the Chairman Pakistan Telecommunication Authority to ensure the reconstruction of telecommunication infrastructure in the flood-hit areas to strengthen the relief activities. The Prime Minister said this while talking to Dr. Muhammad Yaseen, Chairman PTA at PM House. The PTA Chairman presented the Prime Minister a cheque [...]

Acer Appoints Adnan Siddiqui as Brand Ambassador for Acer Pakistan

21 August 2010

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Pakistan: Actor Adnan Siddiqui has been appointed as Acer’s Brand Ambassador in Pakistan. The Pakistani television actor made big waves with his work in the 2007 Hollywood feature film with Angelina Jolie, ‘A Mighty Heart’, and is considered to be thecountry’s top talent. Elaborating on the association of Adnan Siddiqui with Acer, Zahid Mahmood, Country [...]

Mobilink Reaches Out to More Than 38,000 Flood Victims

19 August 2010

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Mobilink, Pakistan’s market leader in cellular services and a part of Orascom Telecom Holding, is rigorously conducting relief efforts and delivering basic necessities to flood victims all over the country and has reached out to more than 38,000 individuals. Items distributed among the suffering families include; 35,000 bottles of clean drinking water, 600 bags of flour, [...]

Ufone Minute per Minute Free Offer

17 August 2010

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When it comes to innovative ideas that benefit customers, nobody comes close to Ufone. And how can they when Ufone is giving U a free minute on every minute 24 hours day. Yes, that’s right! Here’s the latest offer from Ufone… Minute Per Minute Free. Now when U make calls to any Ufone number and [...]

An Impressive Add With Nationalistic Ethos

16 August 2010

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My eyes got misty and then tears rolled down my cheeks as I watched the new TV ad of Ufone. First of all the ad amply demonstrates that the company is capable of making ads signifying the importance of the day, besides mirth and laughter its ads are known for. Secondly the moving theme that struck [...]

PTCL Launches 9.3 Mbps Fastest EVO Wireless Broadband

15 August 2010

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Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) has launched EVO 3G Nitro, the fastest EVDO RevB wireless broadband with speeds up to 9.3mbps. With this launch, Pakistan has become the first country in the world to provide this service commercially. EVO 3G Nitro has revolutionised the three simple steps to High speed On-the-Go connectivity, Just Plug in—Click—Connect [...]

Mobilink Posts Strong Growth in First Half of 2010

14 August 2010

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Mobilink, Pakistan’s market leader in cellular services and part of Orascom Telecom Holding (OTH), has posted strong revenues, higher EBITDA and increasing subscriber base in the first half of 2010 as compared to the same period last year. According to the results published by OTH, Mobilink subscriber base increased by 10.5% as compared to same [...]