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November 2006, Millicom announced that it had decided to exit the Pakistani market. Pakistani authorities had refused to delay payment of a $ 29 million licence installment and had not given Paktel permanent access to part of the frequency spectrum. Announcing its pullout, Millicom said it decided
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October 2002, Paktel was granted a modification to its license, allowing it to operate a GSM based network and the Frequency Allocation Board of Pakistan thereby awarded the necessary frequencies. Paktel was awarded additional 1800 MHz spectrum, increasing total spectrum for GSM network from
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and its local partner Hasan
Associates (a major local team was consisting on Farooq Hasan, R A Zuberi, Shahid Mahmud, Syed Ahmed Ali, and Qazi Abdul Wahid & Dewan) launched the commercial service Paktel in 1990. Paktel was granted a license in early 1990 to operate a cellular telephone network
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On March 31, 2005, Paktel held approximately 340,000 GSM subscribers and its network comprised 300 cell sites, covering about 45% of the population. By
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said that it might resolve the frequency issue with China Mobile, as it was one of the main reason for pullout by
Millicom International Cellular S.A. According to the statistics from the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority, Paktel had 2.145 million customers at the end of February 2008.
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for printing and bills were then dispatched to the customers after a delay of 45 days. This ensued in non-payments from many defaulters who fled after receiving large bills. The call rate was charged to both the caller and the receiver alike. In April 2001, the prepaid brand
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The Paktel
Mediation and Billing System was developed by Syed Ahmed Ali, Nadeem Usmani, Wasay Farooqi, and Ali Korani. It was first mediation software in the region that had been developed locally, and also the first cellular billing system for the region. Millicom-owned
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China Mobile
Pakistan continued to operator under Paktel brand until March 31, 2007. After acquisition, China Mobile Pakistan invested more than US$ 700 million in the telecom sector in Pakistan and US$ 800 million were further invested by the end of year 2008.
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agreed delayed payment terms under which 50% of the license fee will be paid in installments over the first three years of the license. The second 50% of the license fee will be payable in ten yearly payments from 2008 to 2017.
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to launch GSM network with immediate effect and renew their license for 15 years from
October 23, 2004 for a license fee of $ 291,000,000. This agreement was signed by the two parties on October 25, 2004. Paktel and the
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Pakistani market owing to low subscriber base and market share. After the completion of its acquisition by
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acquired a 98.9% equity interest in Paktel. Millicom installed a new management team headed by John
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and its rapid success in 1998, both Instaphone and Paktel floundered and lost their dominant market share. It was followed by the acquisition of
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was the subscriber number. After being rebranded as Zong, the code was changed to 031x whereas 0303 and 0304 were taken over by Mobilink.
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against making significant investments in Pakistan because of tough market conditions. It had already sold
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10 MHz to 13.6 MHz. After obtaining frequencies Paktel launched GSM network in October 2004.
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for $ 284 million, which includes the repayment of intercompany debt. The sale implies an
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891:List of mobile network operators in Pakistan
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645:کال سنو بیلنس بڑھاؤ، باقی سب بھول جاؤ
234:services in Pakistan. It carried out
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27:Pakistani cellular operator
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1021:Instaphone
877:2007-12-11
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669:References
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244:Instaphone
109:2008-03-31
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588:Marketing
385:Frequency
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388:Protocol
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155:Products
148:Pakistan
74:Industry
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1000:Ufone
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60:پاکٹل
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