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CMPak Limited, [1] [2] doing business as Zong (Urdu: زونگ), is a Pakistani mobile data network operator, owned by China Mobile. [ 3 ] It is the first overseas setup of China Mobile through acquisition of a license from Millicom to operate a GSM network in Pakistan in 2008.
Jazz has over 14,000 active cell sites in the country, [10] with over 25,000 kilometers of fiber-optic cables laid. Huawei, Nokia-Siemens, and ZTE are the primary vendors for networking equipment at Jazz, including Radio Base Stations, microwave equipment and network switches.
Cable & Wireless and its local partner Hasan Associates (a major local team was consisting on Farooq Hasan, R A Zuberi, Shahid Mahmud, Syed Ahmed Ali, and Qazi Abdul Wahid & Dewan) launched the commercial service Paktel in 1990. Paktel was granted a license in early 1990 to operate a cellular telephone network throughout Pakistan.
The Special Communications Organization (SCO) is a Pakistani public sector organization operated by MoIT&T. [2] SCO plays a role in providing telecommunication services in Azad Kashmir and Gilgit Baltistan to almost 1.7 million people, a quarter of the total population.
In late 2018 the HB Group acquired Qubee, a fellow broadband operator from US-based private equity fund New Silk Route. Qubee's network used WiMAX technology and HB's objective was to upgrade the technology and also create a business and corporate customer entity and shift the traditionally more challenging consumers to wi-tribe.
Although it was allegedly designed to operate on top of Wi-Fi, compatibility with the security protocol used by the 802.11 wireless networking standard developed by the IEEE is in dispute. Due to the limited access of the standard (only eleven Chinese companies had access), it was the focus of a U.S.–China trade dispute .
Zong, 42, borrowed 140,000 yuan (then about $38,000) to set up his own retail company, selling ice pops and stationery to students at a nearby elementary school.
Zong payments were only accepted by online games and social networks, and the service can be used to purchase virtual goods[[4]]. Zong was awarded the 2009 Frost & Sullivan Best Practices Award for New Product Innovation in the Mobile Payments category. [5] In May 2015, Zong disappeared from the web without any public declaration.