Chinese telecom operator China Mobile plans to invest USD1.5 billion in CMPak, its wholly-owned subsidiary in Pakistan, over the next four years. Fan Yunjun, chief executive officer of CMPak, revealed the news over a talk with Pakistani Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani. Fan said that China Mobile hopes to enlarge its 3G market share in [...]

A subsidiary of Telenor and a wireless telecom operator in Malaysia, DiGi Telecommunications Sdn Bhd has announced the appointment of ZTE Corporation to build a unified mobile network that will provide DiGi with fully transformed 2G/3G/4G network, starting from the third quarter of 2011. This new network is reportedly be able to deliver download speeds [...]

Reports in foreign media state Norwegian telecom group Telenor plans to sell shares of its subsidiary in Pakistan and the group is talking with its Chinese counterpart China Mobile about this transaction.
Though both of the companies involved denied the rumor, media reports state a confidential negotiation is undergoing at the group level between the two [...]

According to statistics provided by Pakistan Telecom Authority, the total number of users of China Mobile's Zong brand in Pakistan has reached 5.98 million by the end of the first quarter of 2009.
PTA said during the first three months of 2009, the number of mobile phone users in Pakistan increased 1.535 million, reaching a total [...]