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Telenor Pakistan (Pvt.) Limited is a Pakistani wireless network operator headquartered in Islamabad, Pakistan. Khurrum Ashfaque is the current chief executive officer (CEO). [2] Telenor started its operations in Pakistan in March 2005. Over the years, Telenor invested more than $2 billion in terms of foreign direct investment (FDI) in Pakistan. [3]
Rank Operator MCC / MNC Tuple Number Prefix Technology Services Ownership Total Subscribers as of January 2025 [1]; Mainland Pakistan AJ&K/Gilgit-Baltistan; 1 Jazz (PMCL - Pakistan Mobile Communications Limited)
Easypaisa was founded in 2009 by Telenor Microfinance Bank as a money transfer service through Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) channels. [4] Telenor Microfinance Bank was originally founded as Tameer Microfinance Bank and was acquired by Telenor Pakistan in 2008.
On 1 July 2009, telephone numbers in Karachi and Lahore were changed from seven digits to eight digits. This was accomplished by adding the digit 9 to the beginning of any phone number that started with a 9 (government and semi-government connexions), and adding the digit 3 to any phone numbers that did not start with the number 9. [1]
[4] [5] The 4G license was bagged by Zong (as well as 10 MHz 3G license), while the 3G licenses were auctioned to Telenor (5 MHz), Mobilink (10 MHz) and Ufone (5 MHz). While Warid Pakistan was the only operator in Pakistan not to bid on the auction; Later on, Warid started LTE services using a previously acquired technology neutral license.
Due to the large demand for landlines in Lahore and Karachi, in 2009, PTCL decided to increase the 7-digit subscriber numbers to 8-digits, adding "9" before existing Government numbers and "3" before the others (e.g. the number 042–7878787 before 2009, was changed to 042–37878787). [39]
Jazz has over 14,000 active cell sites in the country, [10] with over 25,000 kilometers of fiber-optic cables laid. Huawei, Nokia-Siemens, and ZTE are the primary vendors for networking equipment at Jazz, including Radio Base Stations, microwave equipment and network switches.
Ufone has re-farmed their 900 MHz spectrum in Karachi, Lahore, Rawalpindi/Islamabad, Abbottabad, Sheikhupura and Sialkot. [ 15 ] [ 16 ] PTML Ufone won 2x9 MHz of 1800 MHz in the 2021 NGMS auction held by PTA , bringing its total spectrum in the band up to 15 MHz which will be used for improvement of its existing 4G services.