Mobilink's Head office is located at Mobilink House, 1-A Kohistan Road, F-8 Markaz Islamabad. Mobilink's corporate postpaid package is sold under the brand name "Indigo" and prepaid by the name of "Jazz".
Mobilink started operations in 1994 as the first GSM cellular Mobile service in Pakistan by MOTOROLA Inc., later it was sold to Orascom Telecom, an Egypt-based multi-national company.
After the partial privatization of the parent company PTCL, 26% of shares and control was sold to Etisalat and Ufone became a part of the Emirates Telecommunication Corporation Group.
As of September 2010 Ufone has a subscriber base of 20.23 million.
In 2004, Warid Telecom International LLC, purchased a license for operating a nationwide mobile telephony network, (WLL) and long distance international (LDI) for $291 million US dollars and was the first venture of Warid Telecom International LLC.
Warid Pakistan launched its services in May 2005. Within 80 days of launch Warid Pakistan claims to have attracted more than 1 million. users.
On June 30, 2007, Singapore Telecommunications Limited (SingTel) and Warid Telecom announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement subsequent to which SingTel will acquire a 30 per cent equity stake in Warid Telecom for an estimated $758 million— valuing the company at an enterprise value of $2.9 billion.
China Mobile is the world's largest telecom operator. Having a customer base of over 300 million customers, its network routes 700 million text messages every day and handles 250 million calls every hour.
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