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By investing in 3G, 4G, it’s business time for many

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ISLAMABAD: Good help is hard to find these days and nobody knows that better than Ehsan Ahmed. He is an air conditioner retailer and every year, around this time, his employees’ tardiness drives him up the wall. “I pay them a salary plus commission, but they aren’t consistent about their work. They’ll make excuses to […]


Was the 3G auction a success?

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On Wednesday Pakistan, finally, entered the age of 3G and 4G. Everyone came away from the long-awaited but much-delayed spectrum auction with something in hand. A senior telecom executive put it like this: “That is the beauty of the way the government had designed the auction.” While all the four bidders got 3G licences (two […]


Licence auction fetches $1.12bn

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ISLAMABAD: The auction of 3G and 4G licences has made Pakistan nearly $1.12 billion or Rs111 billion richer, putting it very close to the expected $1.2 billion target the government had set for itself in the budget for FY2013-14. The government had expected to make Rs120 billion and was counting on revenue from the telecom […]