The Pakistani Spectator

The telecommunication companies in Pakistan are perhaps the only vibrant and active businesses and their cutting edge competition is not only creating jobs throughout the country, bringing much needed investment, but also providing new and novel features and value-added services to their customers.
For instance, just recently the ZONG, the China Mobile company has announced that [...]

Government, in budget 2008~09, has increased sales tax on mobile calls from 15 % to 21%. Increase in sales tax on other general items was also increase from 15% to 16%.
In 2005, total revenue from cell phone sector was around US $ 4.0 billion. Cell phone industry has enormous growth rate in Pakistan so [...]

Don’t shout at me I am also looking for the person who has sent me this
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This is to inform you all that Please beware of fraudulent calls. Certain group of people who give u impression that they are calling from Jazz (Mobilink) and there was a lucky draw being showed on PTV ( or some other channel) and he has won cash prize of Rs 5 lakh or Rs 10 [...]

The Pakistani market has become extremely lucrative for the cellular business. Where it has enabled many Pakistanis to become connected it has also opened many jobs and work opportunities for millions of Pakistanis. This is the services of telcos like Mobilink, Telenor, Warid UFone, Paktel and now Zong from China Mobile.
Despite of presence of giants [...]

Pakistan’s Premier cellular company Mobilink has accounced the inauguration of Mobilink Awards. They intend to give these awards to those individuals who are doing some exceptional work for the welfare and  betterment of society.
This drive by Mobilink is basically aimed at recognizing the heroes. It’s a marketing oriented drive, no doubt about that, and it’s [...]

The cellular giant Mobilink has started a new programme for finding talent for the 2011 Cricket World Cup. That’s a commendable task and one should encourage the telco for it. One could brush it away by saying that it’s just a marketing campaign but in its national hunt for Cricket heroes, Mobilink has done a [...]

For the last two weeks, I was harassed, annoyed, cajoled and threatened by some anonymous and obnoxious calls by some five or six persons on my cell number. Initially when one or two guys called me, I took it as routine missed calls in which people tried to exploit the fluke. But then it became [...]

A few days back I happened to go back to my village. During the second day of my visit; when I got pass the road I saw a gathering of seven or eight people. When I got there I saw a driver of local van weeping. On my asking somebody (was a shop keeper) told [...]

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) in collaboration with Mobilink, a cellular company, on Friday announced a countrywide programme ‘Hunt for future cricket heroes of Pakistan.’
The programme will provide an opportunity to genuine talented cricketers throughout Pakistan, playing in unstructured environments on the streets and pavements, to prove their mettle.PCB chairman Nasim Ashraf and Mobilink chief [...]