Ufone

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Ufone
Company type Subsidiary
Industry Telecommunication
Founded18 July 1998;27 years ago (1998-07-18)
HeadquartersUfone Tower, Blue Area,
Islamabad
Key people
Hatem Bamatraf GCEO & President
ProductsONIC, UPaisa
RevenueIncrease2.svgRs. 75.423 billion (US$260 million) (2023)
Decrease2.svgRs. -34.668 billion (US$−120 million) (2023)
Decrease2.svgRs. -24.614 billion (US$−85 million) (2023)
Total assets Increase2.svgRs. 234.087 billion (US$810 million) (2023)
Total equity Increase2.svgRs. 7.223 billion (US$25 million) (2023)
Parent Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd
Website ufone.com
Footnotes /references
Financials as of 31 December 2023 [1]

Pak Telecommunication Mobile Limited, doing business as Ufone, is a Pakistani wireless network operator headquartered in Islamabad. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited. Following PTCL's privatization, Ufone became a part of Etisalat by e& in 2006.

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Ufone is mobile service provider in Pakistan with a subscriber base of 27 million as of September 2025, among which 18 million are 4G/LTE subscribers. It has a market share of 13%, the least among all four mobile operators. [2]

History

Ufone was founded in July 1998 and began operations in January 2001. [3]

Rashid Khan was appointed acting CEO of Ufone in August 2017. [4] Rashid Khan, president and CEO of both Ufone and PTCL, died in December 2020. [5]

By 2017, Ufone was the only company in the Pakistani telecommunications market that did not have 4G data services. It launched 4G in August 2019. [6] In 2019, PTCL and Ufone were merging a number of their departments. [7]

In 2021, it purchased its own 4G spectrum license for US$279 million. [6]

Radio frequency summary

FrequencyProtocolBandClassChannel Width
900 MHz GSM/GPRS/EDGE 82G2.6 MHz / 7.6 MHz
900 MHz UMTS/HSDPA/HSPA+ 83G5 MHz
1800 MHz LTE/LTE-A 34G15 MHz
2100 MHz LTE/LTE-A 14G5 MHz

Ufone had bid on a 5 MHz block of 2100 MHz spectrum in the NGMS auction held in early 2014, however due to rising demand, in December 2016, Ufone decided to re-farm a portion of its 900 MHz 2G network to 3G (HSPA+) to increase network capacity.

Ufone has re-farmed their 900 MHz spectrum in Karachi, Lahore, Rawalpindi/Islamabad, Abbottabad, Sheikhupura and Sialkot. [8] [9]

PTML Ufone won 2x9 MHz of 1800 MHz in the 2021 NGMS auction held by PTA, bringing its total spectrum in the band up to 15 MHz which will be used for improvement of its existing 4G services. [10]

4G launch

On 9 February 2019, Ufone launched its 4G network in the twin cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi, utilizing its existing NGMS licenses. By 2019, Ufone had expanded its 4G coverage to Lahore, Karachi, Faisalabad, Sialkot, Peshawar, Quetta, Attock, Hyderabad, Mirpurkhas, Digri, Jhuddo, Naukot, Mithi, Pabbi, Multan, and Nowshera, and had outlined plans to launch 4G in additional cities as well. [11]

Voice over LTE (VoLTE)

In October 2023, Ufone announced that it enabled VoLTE across its network, making it the last network in the country to support the service. [12]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Ufone PTML VIS Rating Report 2023" (PDF). Retrieved 9 October 2025.
  2. ↑ "Telecom Indicators | PTA". www.pta.gov.pk. Retrieved 2024-07-26.
  3. ↑ Hamdani, Amin (2025-01-27). "Ufone Rating Report" (PDF). VIS Credit Rating Company Limited. Retrieved 2025-10-09.
  4. ↑ "Ufone appoints Rashid Khan as acting CEO", Pakistan Today , August 13, 2017, retrieved September 15, 2024
  5. ↑ Ahmed, Ali (December 17, 2020), "President, CEO PTCL & Ufone Rashid Khan passes away", Business Recorder , retrieved September 14, 2024
  6. 1 2 Ahmad, Ahtasam (May 17, 2023), "PTCL Suffering Losses Due To Ufone's Abysmal Performance", The Friday Times , retrieved September 14, 2024
  7. ↑ "Govt may merge Ufone completely with PTCL", Pakistan Today , November 22, 2019, retrieved September 15, 2024
  8. ↑ "Ufone Upgrades and Doubles its 3G Network Through Spectrum Refarming". 2017-01-25. Retrieved 2017-10-19.
  9. ↑ "Ufone Upgrades its 3G Network in Karachi". 2017-03-30. Retrieved 2017-10-19.
  10. ↑ "Press Release". Pakistan Telecommunication Authority. 10 September 2021. Retrieved 30 September 2021.
  11. ↑ Attaa, Aamir. "Ufone is Going 4G in Pakistan" . Retrieved 2019-02-09.
  12. ↑ "Ufone 4G Introduces VoLTE for HD Voice & Video Calling Experience Over 4G Network". ProPakistani. 2023-10-19. Retrieved 2024-03-07.
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