Telecom News Bulletin

CCP issues show cause notice to Warid Telecom

Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP) under the section 30 of Competition act, 2010, has issued a show cause notice to Warid Telecom (Pvt.) Limited. CCP issued the notice because of Warid’s misleading and deceptive advertisings. Warid is advertising one of its packages as “minute package” in which they show that by subscribing to this package [...]

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Warid Launches Ramadan Packages!

Warid Ramadan Rozana Offer! Warid is offering exciting “Value package” in this blessed month in which the calls are free after 3 minutes and you can send around 250 free sms daily. If you are an internet user, then Warid has another package too, “Extra Value Package”, which has 500 free sms, 10MB free GPRS [...]

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Fake Mobile Scratch Cards Cause Rs 134m loss to Telecom Companies

Apart from other crimes taking place in Pakistan, the fraud and theft cases in the Telecommunication industry witnessed in the recent past are gaining roots day by day. Recently it is revealed that many fake mobile cards of different companies were made by some criminals which resulted in a total loss of Rs 134 million to various mobile companies in Pakistan.

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Cellular Company Employee Accused Funnelling Rs210 Million

Employees of a cellular company accused of funneling out over Rs210 million e auditor’s investigations revealed that the suspects had been transferring huge sums of money into their accounts.

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19.5% GST on All Telecom Services From 1st August : Centres, Provinces

In a meeting held in the finance ministry it was decided that GST of 19.5% will be applied on all telecom services from 1st august. All finance secretaries and FBR chairman Salman Sadiq were present in the meeting and chaired by federal finance secretary Dr Waqar Masood.

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Ufone & Mobilink Will Deduct 1.1% Maintenance Charges From 1st July, 2011

Ufone and Mobilink are the leading telecom operators and people of Pakistan are facing many taxes on every buying and recharging. Taxes and charges are directly implemented on the consumers and no one bothers about them. Telecom operators are working as per their routine and they don’t raise their voice for reducing of taxes and we have not seen any retaliation from them till now.

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Pakistan Cellular Coverage Hits 92%

The umbrella of cellular services in the country has seen a rapid increase of about 30% in just six years. The teledensity has reached 62.5% from 33% in the year 2004 and 92% of Pakistan is covered.

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