Today WaridTel’s CEO Mr. Bashir Tahir announced publicly in a press release that WaridTel is not for sale. Since many months there was a rumor in the market that WaridTel is going to be sold to any of the existing mobile operator in Pakistan because of its low efficiency. Today the CEO of WaridTel denied this and further added that WaridTel is still looking forward for the expansion of its network throughout Pakistan.

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Pakistan Telecom Association (PTA) has released a report on all the mobile operators in Pakistan including Mobilink, Ufone, Telenor, WaridTel, CMPak (Zong). In this report PTA conducted a quality of service test on all the networks in different cities of Pakistan and with different aspects. After checking the report, I am still not able to figure out that which mobile service is the best in Pakistan. Ufone is covering the most areas in cities (average score of 98.84%). Whereas, Mobilink ranks on top in voice quality service (average score 2.32). On an overall average that I calculated, Mobilink is the best service in Pakistan with average score of 97.57% in area wise coverage, 97.8% in maintainability and 2.32/3.00 in voice quality. Following is the summary of the report.

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WaridTel is the pioneer Telecom company in Pakistan to launch the SMS packages for their customers. Initially they started with the “Zoom Unlimited” and “Zoom Limited” SMS and MMS Packages, and with time introduced more new packages to their customers. Their packages were very interesting and attracted a lot of youngsters. In year 2009, they introduced an entirely new product named “GLOW” which had the lowest rates. (more…)