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Orascom Founder Says Company Will Have to Evolve to Survive

8 March 2010

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 [...]

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 [...]

Mobilink Jazz SMS Plus Offer Launched

1 March 2010

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Mobilink, Pakistan’s market leader in cellular services and part of Orascom Telecom Holding announced a new SMS offer allowing Jazz customers to send unlimited text messages to all networks between midnight to noon. Striving to deliver quality of service and meeting customer needs par excellence, Mobilink Jazz has launched yet another unique offer at a very [...]

Mobilink Launches SMS Based Service to Support Fight Against Polio

18 February 2010

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Mobilink, Pakistan’s market leader in cellular services and part of Orascom Telecom Holding has reiterated its commitment to eradicate polio from the country by launching today an SMS based service to assist the Polio Control Cell (PCC) in tracking missed areas and children. Through this SMS service, Mobilink subscribers will be able to report areas and [...]

Mobile Operators: Big Is Good, Smart Is Better

14 February 2010

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The current mobile industry business model can’t survive, writes consultancy PRTM in a fascinating new report on the state of the market released in the lead-up to the Mobile World Congress trade show, running from Feb. 15 to 18 in Barcelona. PRTM says that the most successful carriers and the ones most likely to thrive in [...]

Mobilink Jazz launches Audio Cinema

4 February 2010

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Mobilink, Pakistan’s market leader in cellular services and part of Orascom Telecom Holding has launched a new and innovative service allowing users to listen to select movies on their cell phones. Jazz Audio Cinema, launched under the umbrella of Mobilink Jazz, Pakistan’s favorite prepaid cellular brand, is the first of its kind service allows users to [...]

Mobilink Jazz ‘24 Ghanta’ offer

2 February 2010

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Mobilink, Pakistan’s market leader in cellular services and part of Orascom Telecom Holding has launched its 24 Ghanta Offer which allows customers to talk for 100 minutes in a day for only Rs 29. Mobilink Jazz, Pakistan’s favorite prepaid cellular brand, always strives to bring unique offers to address the needs of different prepaid customer segments. [...]

Pakistan Open Clay Shooting Championships 2010 Held at Mobilink Gun Club

1 February 2010

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Rashid Khan, President & CEO Mobilink along with the medal winners of Pakistan Open Clay Shooting Championships 2010 held at Mobilink Gun Club, Islamabad. Pakistan Navy was declared the overall champions of this shooting championship.

Pakistan’s CSR Highlights – Top Initiatives of 2009

21 January 2010

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The last couple of years have been truly amazing for Pakistan in the CSR arena but the previous year has clearly surfaced above all with some of the landmark CSR initiatives in the history of our country. Companies both local and multinational have devotedly played their key part in the previous years in areas [...]

Mobilink Recognizes Performance of Remarkable Employees

20 January 2010

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Mobilink, Pakistan’s market leader in cellular services and part of Orascom Telecom Holding has made an organizational announcement, stating changes in the Human-Resources assignments and employee-promotions in the Sales Division. These appointments have been made with the intention of promoting and elevating the worthy employees to more responsible positions by reassigning to different regions. This move [...]

JAZZ Sim Lagaao, Mazaay Uraao

17 December 2009

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Keeping the tradition of the largest prepaid family in Pakistan, JAZZ welcomes all its family members with wide open arms. Living up to this promise, JAZZ brings forward its latest SIM Lagao Campaign & Offer! The television commercial is a colorful snippet of Azfar & Mani’s life & their search for a precious JAZZ Sim. Staying [...]

Telenor Employed Largest Disables in The Telecom Limb

6 September 2009

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Mobilink Supports Environmental Initiative

4 September 2009

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Mobilink, part of Orascom Telecom Holding, has become the first Pakistani company to support a global environmental initiative by a large group of international corporate leaders, being coordinated by the University of Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership, stated a press release. Mobilink has signed the Copenhagen communique, which calls on governments to agree on an ambitious, efficient and equitable international climate framework at the final negotiation meeting in Copenhagen this December.

Orascom Telecom Eyes Africa, Pakistan Growth – CFO

31 August 2009

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Egypt's Orascom Telecom wants to expand operations in sub-Saharan Africa via acquisitions and is still seeking a small bank to strengthen its mobile banking offering in Pakistan. Orascom - which has its biggest operations in Algeria, Pakistan and Egypt - also expects a resolution to its tax stand-off with Algerian authorities within weeks, chief financial officer Aldo Mareuse told Reuters on Monday. "Telecel, which is our new African subsidiary, will need to consolidate and make more acquisitions," Mareuse said, speaking by telephone from Paris. Telecel Globe, which provides less than 1.8 percent of Orascom's revenues, exceeded one million subscribers for the first time in end-June figures - from users in Zimbabwe, Burundi, Namibia and the Central African Republic.