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Pakistan joins the 3G club

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ISLAMABAD: The four cellular service providers bidding on licences for next generation mobile technology emerged the winners of Wednesday’s bidding war, with Mobilink, Telenor and Ufone picking up licences for 3G services while Zong being the only bidder to acquire a licence for both 3G and 4G services. Mobilink and Zong bid for the ‘superior’ […]


Govt not to auction 3G, 4G licences below base price

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ISLAMABAD: The government has decided not to auction any licence for the next generation technology (3G and 4G) below the base price of $295 million, according to the information memorandum released by the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) on Tuesday. The government is anticipating fetching a minimum of $1.6 billion through the auction of six licences […]


Auction of 3G, 4G licences worth hundreds of millions of dollars approved

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ISLAMABAD: In a positive development, the government has decided to initiate the process of auctioning of new mobile technologies by end of March or early April under the policy directives of Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif. Under these directives, three 3G licences of 10 MHz in 2100 MHz spectrum band, two 4G licences of 10 […]