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Rank Operator MCC / MNC Tuple Number Prefix Technology Services Ownership Total Subscribers as of December 2024 [1]; Mainland Pakistan AJ&K/Gilgit-Baltistan; 1 Jazz (PMCL - Pakistan Mobile Communications Limited)
Jazz has refarmed a 10 MHz block from its 900 MHz spectrum for carrier aggregation with their existing 1800 MHz 4G spectrum. The LTE-A network would be rolled out to cater for growing demand. [ 19 ] This makes them the third carrier after Telenor Pakistan and Zong 4G to officially launch LTE-A in the country.
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]
Telenor offers a full range of telecommunication services in the Nordic countries, including mobile and fixed telephony, Internet access and as well as cable TV access and content. Telenor still remains the largest actor in Norway despite competition from Telia and others.
The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority awarded two mobile telephony licenses to Telenor Pakistan and Space Telecom on 24 April 2004. [6] The license for Space Telecom was cancelled after it missed a dead line to make a 50% down payment of the offered price. Thereafter PTA offered next highest bid winner company, Warid Pakistan. [7]
In 2017, Ufone was the only company in the Pakistani telecommunications market that did not have 4G data services. It launched 4G in August 2019. [3] In 2019, PTCL and Ufone were merging a number of their departments. [6] Rashid Khan, president and CEO of both Ufone and PTCL, died in December 2020. [7]
CMPak Limited, [1] [2] doing business as Zong (Urdu: زونگ), is a Pakistani mobile data network operator, owned by China Mobile. [3]It is the first overseas setup of China Mobile through acquisition of a license from Millicom to operate a GSM network in Pakistan in 2008.
Easypaisa was founded in 2009 by Telenor Microfinance Bank as a money transfer service through Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) channels. [3] Telenor Microfinance Bank was originally founded as Tameer Microfinance Bank and was acquired by Telenor Pakistan in 2008. [4] [5] Later, in 2018, Ant Group also acquired a stake in Telenor ...