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Warid Joined Hands With GCU By Donating Rs 800,000 in University Endowment Fund Trust

12 August 2010

The Warid Telecom on Wednesday joined hands with Government College University Endowment Fund Trust (GCU EFT) by donating Rs 800,000 to meet academic expenses of its bright and deserving students. The Warid Telecom Sales and Distribution Head Amer Aman Khan handed over the cheque to GCU Dean of Arts and Social Sciences Dr Khalid Perviaz [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

Warid Pioneer in Introducing Green Site Solutions

6 July 2010

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The unprecedented growth in the telecommunications sector for voice services is being aggressively followed by growing demands in data services. This recent uptake has compelled telecom operators to offer new and comprehensive solutions to retain good quality network services. In this regard, Warid Telecom has been regularly monitoring and upgrading its network to keep up [...]

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

Warid Sponsor Theatre Drama With Moulin Rouge

28 April 2010

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Shah Sharahbeel who is carefully selecting the cast for the play these days said, “CSP is very excited to finally bring Moulin Rouge theatre performance to Karachi. My team and I have put our heart and soul into the preparation of Moulin Rouge stage performance that everyone has so far loved from young teens to [...]

Win a Laptop Daily With Wi-Tribe

16 April 2010

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wi-tribe Pakistan launched a customer reward campaign themed “Win big with wi-tribe”, enabling its customers to win one laptop daily for 30 days across Karachi, Lahore, Rawalpindi and Islamabad. wi-tribe launched its latest campaign on Thursday 15th April in all four wi-tribe operation cities; Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad and Rawalpindi. There are three ways customers, or [...]

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 [...]

WARID TELECOM PAKISTAN IS NOT BEING SOLD OFF

6 February 2010

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RECENTLY THERE HAVE BEEN MISPLACED NEWS ITEMS IN CERTAIN SECTION OF THE PRESS THAT WARID TELECOM PAKISTAN MAY BE UP FOR SALE BECAUSE OF THE SHRINKING INTEREST OF THE SPONSORS RELATING TO THE MARKET CONDITIONS IN PAKISTAN. WARID TELECOM PAKISTAN CATEGORICALLY AND UNEQUIVOCALLY DENIES SUCH REPORTS AND IMPRESSIONS. WARID TELECOM PAKISTAN IS NOT BEING SOLD [...]

Cellular Industry Continued Subscriber Growth in 2009

4 February 2010

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The telecommunications sector continued to show impressive growth in 2009 as teledensity climbed to 63.5 per cent, mainly led by the cellular industry. According to Pakistan Telecommunication Authority’s data, the cellular industry continued to show subscriber growth in 2009, albeit slower than previous years, as users grew by 9 per cent to a record of [...]

Warid Offload Sizeable Shareholding Along With Management Control Soon

4 February 2010

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The Abu Dhabi Group, an investment company led by members of the Royal Family, is in talks with several Pakistani telecommunications groups to sell a controlling stake in Warid Telecom in a deal that would create the largest mobile phone operator in the country. The company would not reveal the size of the stake or [...]

Punjab Assebmly Banned Late Night Packages

3 February 2010

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Punjab Assembly today resolved to ban all the late night call packages across Punjab. After the strong arguments about how the late night packages were having the negative impact on the youth, the resolution was passed unanimously. It is worth mentioning here that almost all the cellular companies in Pakistan Mobilink, Telenor, Warid, Zong are [...]

Telecom Sector Showing Positive Trend – PTA Annual Report 2008-09

13 January 2010

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Out of the top four cellular players Ufone has been the biggest impetus behind the Cellular industry’s 17% growth as declared by PTA in its annual report for the year 2008-2009. Ufone’s is at the top with an astounding revenue growth of 46% during past year. The report states that cellular telecom sector in Pakistan [...]

Warid GLOW ‘Pakistan Racer Hunt 2009’ Won by Hammad Riaz of Lahore

9 December 2009

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Hammad Riaz of Lahore won the finals of the nationwide campaign of the Pakistan Racer Hunt that was held at the prestigious Bahria Town in Lahore. Over 500 contestants from across the nation took part in the activity conducted by Racing Pakistan in an effort to promote motorsport in the nation and take the winner [...]