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Mainland Pakistan AJ&K/Gilgit-Baltistan; 1 Jazz (PMCL - Pakistan Mobile Communications Limited) 410 / 01 410 / 07 030x 032x 2G: 900 MHz (GPRS, EDGE)
On 1 July 2009, telephone numbers in Karachi and Lahore were changed from seven digits to eight digits. This was accomplished by adding 9 to the beginning of all phone numbers that started with a 9 i.e. government and semi-government lines and adding 3 to all other lines. [1] [2] [clarification needed]
A third company (M/s Pakistan Mobile Telecommunication ltd) was among the competitors, but did not meet the bid requirements. The two companies raced to launch their cellular service and "Instaphone" won the race by few weeks, when they launched their service on 16 October 1990 with 3 Radio Base Stations.
Where, 92 is the ISD code for Pakistan and is required when dialing outside the country, 3 is the mobile access code, and 1 is the prefix for Zong allocated by Pakistan Telecommunication Authority. Omitting +92 would require 0 instead to represent local call, hence 031 is the general prefix and N 1 N 2 N 3 N 4 N 5 N 6 N 7 N 8 N 9 is the ...
Within Pakistan the same number can be reached by dialing either 03XZ-YYYYYYY or '0092-3XZ-YYYYYYY' or '+92-3XZ-YYYYYYY' from any mobile device or landline. In order to dial a landline number from a mobile phone in Pakistan, city code is required in all cases. However, city code is not required between landline calls within the same city.
PTA figures for 2007, for comparison, reported 48.5 million subscribers, [6] rising to 102 million (over 60% of the population) by December 2010. [7]In 2007, the largest cellular mobile telephone service providing company in Pakistan was Mobilink, and other companies included Wateen (a member of Dhabi Group).
Paktel (Urdu: پاکٹل) was a cellular network operator in Pakistan. It was a granted license to carry out cellular phone services in Pakistan and set up by Cable & Wireless. It carried out AMPS services until 2004 when the company switched to GSM technology. Paktel offered only mobile telephony service to its 2 million subscriber base.
Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd., commonly known as PTCL, is the national telecommunication company in Pakistan. [1] [3] PTCL provides telephone and internet services nationwide and is the backbone for the country's telecommunication infrastructure. The corporation manages and operates around 2000 telephone exchanges across the country ...