As a part of the company’s PKR 1 billion pledge towards flood relief efforts, Jazz, along with its employees, have humbly donated PKR 10 million to Alkhidmat Foundation. The company’s employees voluntarily contributed PKR 5 million, and Jazz matched this amount for the nationwide relief effort, which includes immediate flood-relief Continue Reading
Pakistani telecom company, Ufone 4G has launched an accurate weather update service ‘WeatherWalay’ to facilitate customers, especially with regard to the monsoon season and extensive flooding that has affected every province across the country. The service has been introduced as an Interactive Voice Response (IVR), where customers can call 3392 Continue Reading
Jazz, jointly with its digital financial services JazzCash and sister concern Mobilink Microfinance Bank, has pledged PKR 1 billion towards flood relief efforts through much-needed emergency supplies, and more significantly, telecom services. The support will include short- to mid-term initiatives extending over 12 months. As part of this immediate rollout, Continue Reading
TAWAL Telecom, a leading Saudi infrastructure company, is ready to start operations in Pakistan and aims to make sizeable investments to the tune of $70-80 million annually. According to sources in the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), the process of the acquisition of AWAL Telecom by TAWAL Telecom is in its Continue Reading
Living up to its commitment to making education more accessible through technology, Telenor Pakistan has completed the first phase of its flagship sustainability partnership with Orenda’s Taleemabad. Telenor Pakistan and Orenda entered a partnership last year to bring education to millions of out-of-school children in Pakistan by 2023. As part Continue Reading
Jazz CEO Aamir Ibrahim on Tuesday communicated his apprehension regarding the economic outlook of the country and its adverse effects on Jazz’s operations through an internal memo, issued earlier this week, to the company’s employees. The official communication, obtained by Profit, of the Telco Chief, read, “I am elevating the level of Continue Reading
Jazz xlr8, Pakistan’s premier accelerator program for startups, has opened registrations for its new cohort of 2022. The program offers mentorship and training at Islamabad’s National Incubation Centre (NIC) for startups looking to scale their businesses. Interested startups can apply on Jazz xlr8’s website. The last date for submissions is Continue Reading
Pakistan’s leading fintech JazzCash, in collaboration with Bank of Khyber (BoK), is strengthening the country’s digital payments ecosystem. JazzCash users living in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) will now be able to receive PKR 2,100 for the government’s Insaaf Food Programme through the JazzCash retail network and existing JazzCash customers will receive Continue Reading
Islamabad (June 20, 2022): With reference to an article titled “Saving the Internet” published in Dawn on 20 June 2022, it is stated that the article casts aspersions on PTA’s efforts to block illegal online content, primarily pornographic websites in Pakistan through Domain Name System(DNS). The article is based on Continue Reading
VEON, Euronext Amsterdam: VEON), a global digital operator that provides mobile connectivity and services, announces today that the Group’s VEON Ventures division has completed a US$ 15 million Series A investment in Dastgyr, a Pakistan-based B2B e-commerce marketplace platform. The deal is VEON Ventures’ largest investment in a Pakistani Continue Reading
