Zong to Pay Full License Fee for 3G and 4G Spectrum in One Go!

During the 3G and 4G spectrum auction in Pakistan that was arranged last week, the part of chine mobile, Zong telecom, has won 3G license for US 306 million dollars and 4G license for US 210 million dollars. Zong Pakistan has announced that it will pay the entire total fee for the license of 3G and 4G network and will not go for the installment plans for the submission of 3G and 4G license fee that is offered by the government of Pakistan.

Government of Pakistan telecom operators had been offered by the Government of Pakistan to give 50% license fee as up front and apparent remaining dues in 5 years with markup of LIBOR plus 3% of the original billed amount. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Zong, Dr. Fan Yunjun, said: “Zong will clear its dues in a solitary go within coming few days, instead of paying 50% license fee up front and after that paying five equal installments (with interest)”.

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Zong might set up Mobile Phone manufacturing plant in Pakistan

Zong’s parent company China Mobile Communication’s Vice President Li Zhengmao has said that they are considering plans of establishing a mobile manufacturing plant in Pakistan.


Zong’s VP whose company has recently won a 4G license during auction of next generation of mobile services, said that they are seriously working on the plans of building mobile plant in the country. During his meeting with Finance Minister, Ishaq Dar, he also announced the plans of investing $1 billion in telecom infrastructure in coming 3 years.

In an interview, adviser to Zong CEO, Sikandar Naqvi told that their company will roll out 3G services in major cities of Pakistan by October. He also said that immediate roll out of 4G is not possible and took a stand that even Information Memorandum for 3G & 4G spectrum auction even grants them a time period of 1 year to launch 4G in the country.

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Zong 4G ad is a ditto copy of french ad, will their service be original?

We all are pretty excited to think about Zong 4G service which it is going to launch in Pakistan. At least their print ad in yesterday’s leading newspaper suggested the same. Like most of the people we liked the idea unless we found it to be a 100% copy of a French artwork which they used it for their “Auto Show”

 

Below is the image we found on eventcom.fr which is advertising an event “1^st Auto Show Bastia”.

Here is what Zong advertised to boast about its speedy 4G service.

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Nothing Could Stop Zong From Copying a French Artwork for its 4G AD

Securing a 4G license — on top of a 3G license — had earned Zong a notable respect from the industry and as well as the subscribers.

A network, which was previously known for cheap prices and low-cost SMS and voice bundles, was at once become the front runner in the race of technology.

With 4G technology in their hands, Zong had suddenly become the favourite network of the early adapters.

Again there was no doubt they had become the first and only 4G operator in Pakistan, a status that deserved huge appreciation and admiration.


 However, unfortunately though, all the decorousness and status could not hold Zong from copying an artwork for its first ever 4G ad.

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This list consists of all the 4G smartphone that can work with 4G technology. Although pricy, these smartphones can help you surf internet and enjoy mammoth internet speed as soon as this new age technology is rolled out in Pakistan. 4G enabled smartphone are mostly available from international companies. Right now, only Zong has won a 4G license in Pakistan after auction. you can also read about 3G smartphone available in Pakistan from here. There are high expectation by masses for high speed internet and some amazing packages that will be launched along with 3G and 4G roll out.

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Ufone launches first 3G TV ad, other companies follow too

Last night as soon as the official announcement was made by the Chairman Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) Dr. Ismail Shah that all the 4 bidding telecom companies have won 3G licenses, marketing, PR and social media teams of these companies started thinking of executing their advertising plans about their acquirement of licenses for next generation mobile services. There are high expectation by masses for high speed internet and some amazing packages that will be launched along with 3G and 4G roll out.


Ufone that is the first to launch its TVC has a distinctive marketing team couples with some amazing ads, even launched a TV ad starring Adeel Hashmi, Mikaal Zulfiaqr and Ayaan Ali. They used a Lamborghini to show the fast speed internet that can be used via 3G license. Although Ufone has just acquired a 5MHz spectrum but still the ad showed that small slot to be a chance of riding a super speed racing car.

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Telcos to Commercially Launch 3G Services With-in Two Weeks

After successful auction of 3G and 4G spectrum yesterday, each and every mobile phone user is now waiting for the commercial launch of 3G services in the country.

The information ProPakistani received yesterday revealed that despite winning the spectrum, the commercial commencement of 3G service may take a week or two at most.

Pakistan Telecommunication Authority said that it will hold License Award ceremony after operators will pay their remaining license fee.

“15% of earnest money is already with the PTA, while remaining license fee will be settled with-in a week or so”, said Dr. Ismail Shah, Chairman PTA, in an interview with ProPakistani.

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All Four Operators Bag 3G Spectrum, While Only Zong Took Home 4G license

After waiting for years, and a fairly long auction day, Pakistan is all set to roll-out the 3G service after the successful auction of the 3G and 4G spectrum.

We hope you enjoyed ProPakistani’s day long minute by minute live coverage of the auction; lets summarise and review the final outcome of the auction.

All four operators participating in the auction, namely Mobilink, Telenor, Ufone, and Zong, bagged the 3G spectrum; while only Zong went on to bid and acquire the 4G spectrum.

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Zong Baqi Paisay Service tells you about Credit usage

Zong Baqi paisay Service is a Value Added Service (VAS) that informs all the Zong prepaid customers about the amount of credit they have used in a day.

Mechanism

Once a subscription is asked by a Zong prepaid customer for the service, he’ll start receiving an SMS every morning giving complete mobile usage details of the previous days. That particular SMS will contain information regarding all the calls that you made, all the SMS that you have sent and all the GPRS that was used. You’ll also receive information about all the VAS that you have already subscribed.

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3G / 4G Auction in Pakistan [Live Updates]

 

The day has arrived, 3G / 4G is finally happening in our country.

Pakistan Telecom Authority (PTA) has said that it has finalized all the arrangements for the Spectrum Auction for Next Generation Mobile Services (NGMS) to be held today.

Mobilink, Telenor, Ufone and Zong will be taking part in the bid to secure their 3G and 4G licenses.

As you may know that bidding will be done electronically through internet, all the companies will be allowed to log into the bidding system at 8AM, however, first round of bidding will start at 10AM.

The expiration duration of each bidding round will be 45 minutes or less. We will be uploading the results and other commentary on this live page regularly.

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Sindh High Court Suspends Local Loop Licenses of Zong

Sindh High Court (SHC) has suspended 14 local Loop Licenses issues to Zong by Pakistan telecommunication Authority (PTA)

Suspension came as a result of petition filed by Starlite telecommunication Pvt Ltd. who took the stand that licenses were illegal as they were issued without new deregulation policy. Starlite said that they were authorized Local Loop license holders for period of 20 years that started from 16^th March 2006. Company was of the view that Government of Pakistan and PTA cannot give license until they launch a new deregulation policy after the earlier policy expired back in 2008.

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