Confirmed: Warid-Mobilink Merger Isn’t Happening Anymore!: ProPakistani

Confirmed: Warid-Mobilink Merger Isn’t Happening Anymore!
Win Ufone Uth Futura Phone Via Quiz
Warid Telecom Celebrates its 6th Anniversary
PTA To Establish WiMAX Labs For Rapid Broadband Proliferation

Confirmed: Warid-Mobilink Merger Isn’t Happening Anymore!

Posted: 23 May 2011 06:35 AM PDT

Confirmed: Warid-Mobilink Merger Isn’t Happening Anymore! is a post from: ProPakistani

Warid Logo1 Confirmed: Warid Mobilink Merger Isnt Happening Anymore! Rumors and un-confirmed news of Warid-Mobilink merger had been consistently surfacing for last several month, but today Warid has declared that it has decided not to pursue any further the current merger discussions with Orascom Telecom/Vimpelcom, we have confirmed with a highly placed source in the company.

On the occasion of its 6th anniversary, higher management communicated this to its workforce that Warid has decided to retain its independent brand identity and will not merge with Mobilink or any other operator. The communication said that Warid has abandoned any discussion/talks for merger, and has decided not to get into merger talks again.

According to another source, this decision came after evaluating the overall interests of the shareholders and current market situation, Warid ultimately has decided not to go with the merger instead it will re-visit its overall operations to boost the sales and network capacity.

Inside sources tell us that Warid employees are very positive after this development, who have undergone through difficult and uncertain time during last one year or so.

Win Ufone Uth Futura Phone Via Quiz

Posted: 23 May 2011 06:16 AM PDT

Win Ufone Uth Futura Phone Via Quiz is a post from: ProPakistani

Ufone introduces another handset named as Uth Futura, but this handset is not available in the market, at the moment.

Ufone today announced that it will be giving Uth Futura handset via a quiz.

All you have to do is to go through a simple quiz which is basically time oriented and at the end of the quiz you will be awarded with some points.

Though no clear criteria and result date has been announced by Ufone, at the moment, but still it seems to be a lucky draw based competition.

How to Participate:

You can participate in this quiz by visiting Ufone’s facebook page.

But at the moment, Ufone seems to be having issues with the campaign, Ufone’s facebook application ‘Uth Futura Quiz’ shows Account Suspended page.

Campaign’s Leaked Video:

It merits mentioning here that Ufone Uth Futura campaign was leaked 10 days before it’s launch. A Youtube video which explains what Uth Futura is, and how to participate in the quiz, went online at 11 May, 2011.

Update:

Ufone has taken back the facebook app because of the error, we quoted above, and you cannot participate in the quiz at the moment.

Warid Telecom Celebrates its 6th Anniversary

Posted: 23 May 2011 06:15 AM PDT

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Abu Dhabi & Singtel (Singapore Telecommunications) groups company, Warid Telecom Pakistan marked its sixth year of business excellence in Pakistan. The mobile operator entered the market on May, 23rd, 2005.

During the years, Warid Telecom has earned name for its quality services and strong network penetration.

Warid is a capacity building Organization that has become Center of Excellence over the past six years. In our culture we strongly believe in making people do their best and that is how we strive for Excellence.

We have the team of most brilliant professionals who made the brand promises a reality and stood with the roll call of quality, consistency and unwavering integrity. This success would have never become possible without those who we serve, our valuable customers.

I believe our centricity towards Customer Service mentality as an Organization is our greatest strength." said Muneer Farooqui, Chief Executive Officer, Warid Telecom.

He further added "I am grateful to each of our customer who has made our brand a great success. I am also thankful to our stakeholders for their trust, to our honorable Chairman His Highness Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Board of Directors, BEC Members, all our associates and everyone involved in making Warid a success."

In all these years, Company has shown solid results with vast expansion in each area. Company secured over 17.70 million subscribers while providing quality network coverage at over 6,300 destinations, 550 cities including Azad Kashmir and Northern areas of Pakistan.

Company has one of the largest customer reach network with 116,000 retail outlets, 327 franchises and 19 business centers across Pakistan. Being versatile and innovative, there are over 60 Mobile VAS (Value Added Services) it offers. Covering wide International Roaming destinations, its IR services are now available in over 148 countries with GPRS roaming in 102 countries and prepaid roaming in 28 countries.

Based on its great brand repute and corporate image, the company has secured the second largest postpaid subscriber base in Pakistan.

The regulator PTA (Pakistan Telecommunications Authority) reports Warid Telecom as the only Operator with lowest consumer complaints amongst all the operators which clearly portrays the class of service it offers.

As a responsible enterprise, Company is actively involved in honoring its Corporate Social Responsibility part. Amongst the numerous awards it won, Warid Pakistan recently received the Highest FDI (Foreign Direct Investment) Excellence Award, also twice nominated for Brand of the Year award and the award of 'Mobile Operator with Best Consumer Pull in Pakistan'.

PTA To Establish WiMAX Labs For Rapid Broadband Proliferation

Posted: 23 May 2011 02:30 AM PDT

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Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has decided to set up Wimax and its physical equipment testing and certification laboratories in order to ensure the rapid proliferation of broadband services with maximum guarantee of quality, official sources said.

The authority has invited private IT and Telecom firms to establish quality testing labs that can test and certify the performance and fitness of different foreign and local made telecom and IT equipment’s in the network of WiMAX broadband operators.

The aim of these labs is to increase the proliferation rate of broadband services in the country through facilitation to Wireless Local Loops (WLL) operators that intended to switch their telephony services to internet broadband services in the designated geographical and operational regions.

The authority through these IT and Telecom firms will assist interested wireless telephone operators to provide broadband services with proper interoperability standards as prescribed by WiMAX Broadband Forum.

PTA allows WLL operators to switch their services from telephony to broadband while functioning on the spectrum awarded in the license or carrying out both telephony and broadband services as per terms and conditions of license. Besides, the WLL companies are also allowed to auction their license to interested party seeking to deploy broadband services in Pakistan.

Pakistan has seven wireless telephone operators providing telephony services with different standards having subscribers base of 2.78 million.

These operators can alter their service provision from telephony to broadband through legal procedures provided that they get approval with proper certification of services and models of Consumer Premises Equipment (CPE) which must have conformity with broadband working group.

PTA has asked all interested parties already performing testing and issuing certifications in advanced capacities to approach its Directorate Numbering and Type Approval by June 30,2011 for further assistance and guidance of authority to set up labs in Pakistan.

The IT and Telecom firms must be conducting various certifications including Radio Conformance Testing (RCT) Protocol Conformance Testing (PCT), Network Conformance Testing (NCT) Mobile Interoperability Testing (MIOT), Interoperability Testing (IOT), Infrastructure Interoperability Testing (IIOT), Radiated Performance Testing (RPT).

This is one of the steps of authority in collaboration with broadband and WLL operators to enhance the subscribers' base throughout the country, which is encouraging for speedy and standard internet access to maximum citizens.

Pakistan has nearly 0.35 million users of WiMAX internet services at present, which has a significant share in overall broadband users' base.

PTA has recently developed an application named "Pakistan Telecommunication Coverage Footprint" on its web-portal that gives the flexibility to view areas of coverage and service availability of GSM, DSL and EVDO service providers.

It also conducts quality of service survey and ranks different operators in accordance with their service performance and coverage.