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Latest Telecoms News from Pakistan
Etisalat in Arrears in Payments to Pakistan Government
UAE based Etisalat is reported to be withholding around US$1 billion in payments to the Pakistan government over a dispute relating to its 2006 purchase of a 26% stake in Pakistan Telecommunication Corporation (PTCL)....
Related Tags: etisalat, ptcl, ufone
White House Produces Mobile Videos for Afghanistan and Pakistan
The USA's White House blog has started producing short mobile phone optimised videos aimed at viewers in Afghanistan and Pakistan. ...
Related Tags: mobile-vide
Pakistan's Mobilink Debt Ratings Lowered to "Substantial Risk"
Standard & Poor's Ratings Services has lowered the corporate credit rating and long-term senior unsecured debt rating on Pakistan-based wireless service provider Pakistan Mobile Communications (Mobilink) to 'CCC+' from 'B-'. The outlook on the corporate credit rating is negative....
Related Tags: mobilink, orascom-telecom-holding
Mobilink Sees Pakistan Subscriber Base back Above 30 Million
Pakistan based mobile network operator, Mobilink has reported that its subscriber base grew by 900,000 net additions in Q3 2009 to reach just over 30 million. ...
Related Tags: mobilink, orascom-telecom-holding
Telenor Rumoured to be Close to Buying Warid Telecom
It is being reported that Norway's Telenor is close to purchasing a controlling stake in Pakistan's Warid Telecom for around US$1.3 billion. If completed, the Dhabi Group will retain 7 percent of the company, while other 30 percent will stay with Singtel....
Related Tags: telenor, warid-telecom, singapore-telecom, dhabi-group
SingTel Subscriber Base Reaches 273 Million
Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel) announced that the Group posted strong growth in customer acquisitions with the addition of 57 million customers, or 26 per cent higher than a year ago, bringing its combined regional mobile customer base to 273 million as at 30 September 2009....
Related Tags: singtel, broadband
Telenor Launches Mobile Banking Service in Pakistan
Telenor Pakistan and Tameer Microfinance Bank together have announced the launch of a mobile banking service, which is being branded as "easypaisa". ...
Related Tags: telenor, mobile-banking, play, security, life
Telenor Pakistan becomes the first cellular operator to complete USF project
Telenor Pakistan says that it has become the country's first telco to have completed a Universal Service Fund project. To celebrate the achievement, Telenor Pakistan and the Universal Service Fund jointly inaugurated a Base Station in district Bahawalpur's Cholistan desert last week....
Related Tags: telenor, universal-service-fund, base
Pakistan's Mobilink Debt Ratings Downgraded
Moody's Investors Service has downgraded Pakistan Mobilink Communications (Mobilink) B1 local currency corporate family rating to B2; at the same time Mobilink's B3 senior unsecured bond rating has been downgraded to Caa1; the outlook on both ratings is negative....
Related Tags: mobilink, orascom, moodys
Pakistan Planning 3G License Tender Imminently
Pakistan's telecoms regulator, the PTA says that it plans to offer 3G licenses in the near future, without specifying a specific deadline....
Related Tags: 3g-license, pakistan-telecommunications-authority, pta
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