Telecom News Bulletin

Telenor & TransferTo Partner For International Top-Up Service

Telenor Pakistan and TransferTo, the international mobile airtime top-up network, have joined hands to enable International Top-Ups to Telenor subscribers from overseas, both companies announced today. Pakistanis living abroad can now conveniently top-up their loved ones’ phones with Telenor Pakistan airtime through any of TransferTo’s authorized partners, as well as the consumer-facing website, http://www.transferto.com.

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Jazz In-Flight Roaming – Reach the World from the Sky!

Mobilink always tries to ensure convenience and provision of seamless services to its customers, whether at home or abroad. With Jazz In-flight Roaming Service, Mobilink now offers its Jazz customers the facility to stay safely connected with their loved ones even as they fly. Partnering with Emirates and Malaysia Airlines through our partner network AeroMobile, Mobilink brings GSM network on board aircrafts for its Jazz customers. This service enables passengers to safely use their GSM mobile phones during flights - after takeoff and before landing.

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FBR Empowered to Conduct Sale Tax Audit of Telecom Companies

The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) would be empowered to conduct sales tax audit of telecommunication companies under the reformed GST even after levy of sales tax on such services by the provinces. Tax experts told Business Recorder here on Thursday that the Record Note on the implementation of the reformed GST has clearly specified that FBR would be the sole authority for carrying out sales tax audit of the telecom companies.

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Mobilink Expands Jazz Load International Reach With TransferTo

Mobilink, Pakistan’s market leader in cellular services and part of Orascom Telecom Holding has recently entered into a partnership with the international mobile airtime transfer company, TransferTo in order to widen its Jazz Load international transfers. Through this collaborative service, Pakistanis living outside of Pakistan will be able to send airtime to their loved ones in Pakistan.

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Energy Efficient Bike To Hit Market After Eid

A company has manufactured energy efficient hybrid motorcycle is going to hit the domestic market shortly after Eidul Fitr. And guess what? it gives a taste of quality bike ride with an edge of high energy efficiency and environment-friendliness. Hybrid bike was another novel but consumer-friendly idea of an entrepreneur born in Multan, Chaudhry Mohammad Yousuf Ibrahim, after launching country’s first battery-run bike in May 2008 in the city of saints.

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Nokia Welcomes Ramadan 2010 With Tailored Applications For The Holy Month

Nokia has announced the launch of a new range of mobile applications and content tailored for the holy month of Ramadan. The new range of Ramadan applications 2010 have now become available on Ovi Store, the updated mobile applications tailored for the Holy Month can now be downloaded on the compatible Nokia devices for free [...]

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Gulf States to Ban Blackberry Services

The United Arab Emirates is to block sending emails, accessing the internet, and delivering instant messages to other Blackberry handsets. Saudi Arabia is to prevent the use of the Blackberry to Blackberry instant messaging service. Both nations are unhappy that they are unable to monitor such communications via the handsets. This is because the Blackberry [...]

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