Phone firm to increase investment

Published April 28, 2005

ISLAMABAD, April 27: Telenor is making huge investments in building state of the art and environment-friendly infrastructure as it is committed to providing high quality services to the customers. This was stated by Telenor’s Chief Marketing Officer Bjorn Taale Sandberg in a presentation on Wednesday at company’s office

The commercial service of the company was launched in March 15 in Islamabad, Rawalpindi and Karachi while Lahore, Faisalabad and Hyderabad were added to the network a week later.

With 343,000 subscribers, the company has a market share of 3.5 per cent as compared to 61.3 per cent by Mobilink, 21.8 per cent by Ufone, 7.9 per cent Paktel and 5.5 per cent Instaphone.

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