happen type subsidiary industry telecommunications founded 2004 headquarters islamabad pakistan area served pakistan key people irfan wahab khan ceo products mobile telephony mobile banking website www.telenor.com.pk telenor pakistan urdu is owned by the norwegian telenor group which is an international provider of voice data content and mobile communication services in 13 markets across europe and asia and an additional 17 markets through its ownership in vimpelcom ltd. telenor group is among the largest mobile operators in the world with over 166 million mobile subscriptions q4 2011 and a workforce of 33 000 . telenor started out as a public company in 1855 . currently telenor pakistan has a total subscriber base of 36 million with over 26 % sim market share . citation needed contents 1 history 2 operations 2.1 areas 2.2 sales and distribution 2.3 third generation services 3 fourth generation lte 4 mobile banking and easypaisa 5 awards 6 see also 7 references 8 external links history edit telenor acquired a license for providing gsm services in pakistan in april 2004 and launched its services commercially in karachi islamabad and rawalpindi on 15 march 2005 ; it expanded its services to lahore faisalabad and hyderabad on 23 march 2005 . telenor pakistan s corporate headquarters are in islamabad with regional offices in peshawar lahore faisalabad multan hyderabad quetta and karachi . on 28 january 2005 telenor established its first call centre in karachi . the official opening of telenor pakistan was held in islamabad with former president of pakistan general pervez musharraf as guest of honor and a telenor delegation headed by president & ceo telenor group jon fredrik baksaas along with then ceo telenor pakistan tore johnsen . 1 the inauguration call was made by former president pervez musharraf to the prime minister of norway who was visiting australia at the time . the present ceo of telenor pakistan is irfan wahab khan 2 operations edit areas edit telenor covers more than 3 500 cities and towns throughout pakistan . 3 the company has over 8 000 3g ready cell sites throughout the country and offers gprs and edge nationwide and hspa services in over 300 cities . 4 sales and distribution edit telenor pakistan s distribution network has over 200 000 touch points across pakistan that include company owned customer sales and service centers franchises sahulat ghars and retailers that offer gsm products and easypaisa services . third generation services edit telenor pakistan is providing 3g services as the company has acquired a 3g licence in an auction that took place on 23 april 2014 in islamabad pakistan and expanding services rapidly . 5 telenor pakistan has pakistan s largest 3g coverage currently in 300 cities . citation needed fourth generation lte edit on august 2016 telenor pakistan became third 4g network of pakistan . telenor pakistan is currently providing 4g services trail in islamabad lahore multan and karachi faisalabad and swat . in future telenor will expand soon their 4g services in all over pakistan . mobile banking and easypaisa edit in 2008 telenor acquired majority shares of tameer microfinance bank limited for its mobile financial services project . 6 they named the branchless banking service easypaisa and launched it in october 2009 . 7 in a country of over 190 million people with only 10 000 bank branches and approximately 15 million bank accounts easypaisa was pakistan s first branchless banking deployment aimed to increase access to financial services for the people of pakistan with over 25 000 easypaisa shops across the country . 8 easypaisa was also quoted by cnn as the model to follow in launching mobile banking services . 9 10 easypaisa is pakistan s first and largest mobile money service and third largest in the world catering to 6 million customers every month . it currently has over 40 000 agents in 750 cities and towns across pakistan . moreover in october 2014 telenor easypaisa has introduced three types of accounts for every class of users . they have named them as level 2 basic account level 2 a type account level 2 b type account and level 2 c type account all accounts have their own deposit limit and distinct rules . 11 awards edit telenor pakistan has won a number of awards . in 2011 it won the prime minister of pakistan trophy for largest foreign direct investment telecom sector which was awarded by the lahore chamber of commerce and industries . 12 telenor pakistan & tameer microfinance bank s easypaisa was awarded the shaukat khanum social responsibility award 2011 by shaukat khanum memorial cancer hospital & research centre lahore . 13 easypaisa has also won the best mobile money transfer entrant of the year award at the world s first mobile money awards in 2011 . in 2012 easypaisa was declared as the third largest mobile money service in the world by consultative group to assist the poor cgap a global partnership of 34 organizations housed in the world bank whose goal is to advance financial inclusion . in previous years telenor pakistan has presented the best place to work award by pakistan s hr associations ; and the best practices award presented by the data warehousing institute . 14 telenor pakistan has also won the superbrand of the telecom industry award a recognition supported by the international brand arbiter superbrands that operates in 55 countries . 15 see also edit djuice list of mobile phone companies in pakistan references edit 1 telenor pakistan s inauguration . 2 telenor pakistan announces irfan wahab khan as new chief executive officer 3 telenor s coverage statistics . 4 telenor pakistan s edge and gprs services . telenor 3g daily 3 days weekly and monthly packages 2016 . www.telezonepk.com . retrieved 28 july 2016 . 5 the acquisition of tameer bank . 6 the launch of easypaisa . 7 who perform the money transfer & bill payments . later mobile wallet was introduced where normal telenor pakistan subscribers could now open a mobile account and make transaction themselves from their cellphone retailers as merchants . 8 easypaisa as the model to follow cnn . 9 highlights of bcg report on socio economic impact of mobile financial services . 10 new telenor easypaisa with new rules . 11 telenor pakistan wins the prime minister of pakistan trophy . 12 easypaisa is awarded the shaukat khanum social responsibility award 2011 13 telenor pakistan wins the best place to work award . telenor declared as the superbrand of the telecom industry . www.propakistani.pk . 18 june 2009 . retrieved 28 july 2016 . telenor 3g packages external links edit official website v t e mobile network operators of pakistan mobilink sco telenor pk ufone warid zong v t e telenor mobile aeromobile digi malaysia djuice dtac thailand grameenphone bangladesh kyivstar ukraine ojsc vimpelcom russia telenor bulgaria telenor cinclus telenor denmark telenor hungary telenor india telenor mobil norway telenor montenegro telenor pakistan telenor serbia telenor sverige vimpelcom ltd. fixed bredbandsbolaget cybercity glocalnet svalbard undersea cable system broadcasting 1 west canal digital conax norges televisjon norkring rikstv telenor avidi thor 1 thor 3 thor 5 thor 6 other amedia edb business partner evry opera telenor arena telenor arena karlskrona telenor maritim radio retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title telenor pakistan & oldid 739592400 categories telecommunications companies of pakistantelenorpakistani subsidiaries of foreign companieshidden categories use dmy dates from april 2012pages using infobox company with unsupported parametersarticles containing urdu language textall articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from july 2016 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages norsk bokm l edit links this page was last modified on 15 september 2016 at 16 46 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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