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Articles tagged with: Pakistan Mobile
Pakistan Mobile Buys Back Debt - Risks Ratings Downgrade
Egypt's Orascom Telecom Holding (OTH) says that its wholly owned Pakistan subsidiary, Pakistan Mobile Communications (PMCL) had brought back US$140 million of its debt at the rate of US$730 per US$1,000. more
Related Tags: orascom-telecom, standard-and-poors, orascom-telecom-holding, mobilink, debt-ratings, orascom, Pakistan
Pakistan Mobile Debt Buyback Plans Trigger Default Warning
The debt ratings agency, Standard & Poor's Ratings Services has warned that it considers Pakistan Mobile to be at risk of defaulting on a debt repayment. The mobile operator, owned by Orascom Telecom Holding recently announced plans to repurchase for cash up to US$100 million of its $250 million bonds due 2013, at a 23%-30% discount to face value. more
Related Tags: itu, tim, orascom-telecom, orascom-telecom-holding, mobilink, debt-ratings, orascom, Pakistan
Acision Increases Capacity by 250% to Cater for Boom in SMS Traffic
Messaging vendor, Acision has announced that Telenor Pakistan has again selected the Acision SMSC to expand its messaging capacity by up to 250%. The growth in the country's subscriber rate has consequently led way to triple digit growth in messaging traffic over the last year. more
Related Tags: asia-pacific, sms, mobile-data, acision, telenor, telenor-pakistan, smsc, Pakistan
Orascom Telecom Debt Ratings Lowered on Weaker Growth in Pakistan, Bangladesh
Standard & Poor's Ratings Services has lowered its long-term corporate credit ratings on Orascom Telecom Holdings and Orascom Telecom Finance to 'B' from 'B+' following weaker growth expectations from its Pakistan- and Bangladesh-based operations. more
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Top 20 Operators in Asia-Pac: Bharti overtakes DoCoMo, India Gains Ground
The mobile markets of the Asia Pacific region continues to grow in importance. In Issue 99, we reported the fact that at the end of September, there were 20 networks in the world with more than 30m customers, of which eight were in this region. Those eight included the two largest - China Mobile and China Unicom - as well as the seventh, eighth, tenth, twelfth, 13th and 20th. Just three months later, there are now 23 networks that have passed the 30m mark and nine of these are now in the AsiaPac region, including four from India. Of the nine, four now have over 50m customers, the other two outside China being Bharti from India and DoCoMo from Japan. Together, the nine have a total of 831m customers, or just under 25% of the global market. more
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Who are the Fastest Growing Operators in Asia-Pacific?
No fewer than 16 companies added more than 5 million customers over the course of the twelve months ended June 07. China Mobile heads the list with a massive 58.6 million customers - as many as the next three operators put together, and then some. As we have suggested before, it would take a genuinely radical restructuring of China's communications industry to threaten the company's world leading position and that seems unlikely. more
Related Tags: telenor, china-mobile, ipo, reliance, bharti, warid-telecom, bsnl, telkomsel, hutchison, vivo, telsim, India
GPRS Based Mobile TV Deal for Pakistan
UK based ROK Entertainment says it has reached agreement with Pakistan mobile operator, Warid Telecom, to provide streamed mobile TV over Warid's existing 2.5G network. more
Related Tags: mobile-tv, avea, telenor, singtel, ais, vodacom
Millicom Mulls Selling, Closing Paktel"
STOCKHOLM -(Dow Jones)- Millicom International Cellular, Monday said that it's considering selling or closing its Pakistani business Paktel Limited. more
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Two win GSM licenses in Pakistan
Norway's Telenor and the consortium group, Space Telecom have won two GSM licenses in Pakistan. Space Telecom is a consortium of investors that includes the local Attock Group and Syria's GSM network operator, Syriatel. Space Telecom said it has other investors from the U.K. and Holland, whom it didn't name. more
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Motorola wins Pakistan GSM contract
Motorola has won an expansion contract for the largest GSM network in Pakistan that currently serves one million subscribers. Pakistan Mobile Communications (Mobilink), Pakistan's largest mobile phone operator in terms of subscribers, has selected Motorola to provide wireless network infrastructure equipment that will double the operator's subscriber base capacity to two million customers on its nationwide network. Commercial deployment is scheduled by mid 2003. more
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