Competition Commission of Pakistan Takes Action On Deceptive Marketing
At Telecompk.Net, we have time and again criticize on deceptive marketing practices by the telecom operators in their adverts. For the same Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP) has taken a step and has passed orders on the show c6ispqmh5x cause notice taken earlier to M/s China Mobile Pak Limited (Zong – CMPak) & M/s Pakistan [...]
Conditional Entry For Telenor In India
As discussed earlier of a possible acquisition of Telenor Pakistan by China Mobile Pakistan (CMPak) possibly to let Telenor get a green signal to enter the India. The lastest news is that India is set to grant Telenor the necessary security clearance to increase its stake in Unitech Wireless to the legal maximum of 74% [...]
USF Awards Projects For Balochistan And South Punjab
Universal Service Fund has achieved another milestone by reaching out to the remote rural areas in Balochistan. It was just recently that we had written about the digital divide within Pakistan and expressed the hope that the efforts of USF will bridge this divide. We received the announcement today that: USF has signed contracts for [...]
China Mobile Selects Alcatel-Lucent To Expand GSM/EDGE Network In Pakistan
Alcatel-Lucent has signed a contract worth USD 52.87 million with China Mobile Pakistan Limited (CMPak), a wholly-owned subsidiary of China Mobile, to expand its existing GSM/EDGE network. The expansion will allow CMPak to provide enhanced commercial services in northern Pakistan by the end of the first quarter of 2009. Alcatel-Lucent will enable CMPak to increase [...]
Expansion Of Telecom Infrastructure In Pakistan: ZTE And CMPak In USD100 Million Base Station Deal.
CM Pak is one of the biggest investor of telecom infrastrucutre in Pakistan. This base station deal with ZTE has been in the making for a few months and it was announced to the general media today. According to PTA annual report, operators added around 8,000 new cell sites during 2007-08 . Ufone added the highest number of [...]
Dealing With SMS Scams And Frauds
Daily Times Pakistan has reported that the telecom industry in Pakistan is trying to figure out the strategy, plan and the tools to thwart fraudulent SMS and calls. Services such as balance transfer are one of the most common target where user end up losing their balance beacuase they act on the instructions in the scam [...]
Zong Expands Services To Northern Areas
The far-flung Northern areas have been a major beneficiary of the changing telecommunication landscape in Pakistan. Ignore for a long time, these areas have been getting attention from the mobile phone companies. After Mobilink and Telenor, Zong has also launched its services in the beautiful cities of Gilgit, Hunza, Skardu, Besharn and Sust. I am [...]
Phase II Of Mobile Numbers Migration Completed
A good write-up from PTA on mobile number migration work, currently in progress. See my previous posts here and here. Pakistan follows International Telecommunication Union (ITU) -T standards E.164 for geographical national numbering plan that includes local loop & cellular mobile operators. The cellular mobile numbers are identified by means of 4-digit separate access code [...]
Update: Mobile Subscriber Number Changes
In January I covered the 7-to-8 digit mobile subscriber number migration. There were some questions from readers about the implementation of this change. Now PTA has issued a well written clarification. The detailed explanation is shown below. It mentions that the change in numbers will be limited to CMPak, Instaphone and SCO. All other mobile carriers will [...]
Paktel – How Do You Explain The Sudden Increase In Subscribers?
I presented the 2007 mobile subscriber numbers for the major mobile companies a few weeks ago. Here’s another view. Lets review CMPak as it went through a huge transformation and struggled in the beginning. Paktel started out with 1.33M and ended the year with 1.98M. Not too bad but the interesting point is the sudden [...]
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