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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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

Mobile Operators Sign MoU For Infrastructure Sharing

7 August 2010

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The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) and the Cellular Mobile Operators (CMOs) of Pakistan have signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on infrastructure sharing. The MoU will be valid for an initial term of three years and may be extended with mutual consent of the parties, upon expiration of the initial term. The MoU signed by all [...]

Mobilink Pledges Rs. 85 Million For Flood Relief

5 August 2010

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Mobilink, Pakistan’s market leader in cellular communication services, with the support of parent company Orascom Telecom Holding has committed Rs. 85 million for providing relief to the affectees of the floods caused by torrential monsoon rains in Pakistan. Mobilink will be coordinating with relief organizations including World Food Programme and World Health Organization to reach [...]

Cellular Operators Battle on Pakistan Historical Win Against Australia

25 July 2010

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Cellular operators battle continued as they became face-to-face once again in the sensational and historical test match won Pakistan against Australia. Pakistan, seeking a revenge of first defeat at the hand of Australia, had held dominant position in the match since the beginning and built high hopes among Pakistan’s fans to break fifteen-year Aussies record. [...]

FED Liability of Rs 400 Million Raised Against Leading Cellular Company

25 July 2010

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A huge amount of tax liability of Federal Excise Duty (FED) under Sales Tax mode, raised against a leading cellular company by Large Taxpayer Unit (LTU) Islamabad, has been challenged where provisions of section 36 of the Sales tax Act 1990 have been invoked to create a demand of over Rs 400 million against the [...]

Mobilink to Complete Round 4 of Polio Awareness

16 July 2010

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Mobilink, Pakistan’s market leader in cellular services and a part of Orascom Telecom Holding, will be concluding its awareness drive on July 16 to support the National Polio Campaign and the Polio Control Cell. As an integral member and advocate in the fight against polio, Mobilink has conducted 3 rounds of awareness in the past [...]

Upload your Crazy Fan Photo on Mobilink Jazz Fan Mania

2 July 2010

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So you love football and you’ve got great dribbling skills? Well, this is the time to show the world that you’ve got what it takes! Mobilink Jazz calls all football fans in Pakistan to capture their crazy fan moment and upload it on Jazz Fan Mania to win 2 free tickets to watch the World [...]

Telecom Industry Has Yet To Go Miles

28 June 2010

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Telecom operators in Pakistan may well be running in losses; the cellular subscriber market may well have reached the saturation points, but nothing stopped the telecom firms throw in a wide range of product offerings and different packages in the year to date. In the face of slower mobile subscription growth, the industry managed to [...]

Inaction of IT Officials Land Telecom Operators in Trouble

28 June 2010

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The absence of senior official of ministry of IT has increased the uncertainty as people sitting on the helm of affairs are abroad these days. It is pertinent to mention here that the provincial government of Punjab has issued June 30 deadline to all Telecom operators in the province for shifting of cellular phone towers [...]

Ufone, Mobilink and Telenor Get Audio Service Licences

26 June 2010

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Three mobile operators have been issued Mobile Audio (content provision) Service Licenses, which would enable the mobile phone subscribers to entertain audio service on their mobile phone. The decision was taken in a meeting of Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) held on Friday, they furthermore reviewed the progress on performance of its decisions taken [...]

Punjab Government Indecent Haste Leaves Telecom Operators Baffled

22 June 2010

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Country’s Telecom sector has decided to ‘knock’ at the ‘doors’ of federal government and ministry of IT and S& T for what they termed as in human decision to replace more than 1,5000 cell sites in a mere gap of ten days by the end of June. Sources in the telecom sector revealed that although [...]

Punjab Government Order to Shift Mobile Tower on Solar Power

21 June 2010

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While reading a newspaper i am surprised to see the Punjab government Ad intimating all the mobile operators and electric billboards owner to make arrangement for power supply shift to solar energy as from 30th June, 2010 onwards any mobile tower or e-billboard running on electricity will be disconnected. Nawa-e-Waqt – 19th June, 2010