Tele-Zong or Zong-Nor, it’s not far

[Mudassar J Mufti]

If Telenor-China Mobile scenario is taken into account then both must
realize how the associated reputation will be dealt with.

China Mobile needs to buy something out of their homeland; this was
the statement from their chairman Mr. Wang Jianzhou.

When two people get married, either of them or sometimes both of them
adopt each other’s qualities and habits. If Telenor and Zong go for
such a relation, and that is inevitable according to a school of
thought, then which brand is going to dominate is a question.

Telenor enjoys a better reputation than Zong since its birth in
Pakistan. From the start they have been focusing on quality, targeting
the youth and for sure their prime targets were the remote areas where
it started to penetrate in the first phase contrary to Warid or rest
of the companies. This is why we soon started to get calls from the
Telenor numbers that shows their acceptability.

On the other hand, apart from very few people, I hardly get calls from
a Zong number. It’s been quite a time since China Mobile (CM) acquired
Paktel in Pakistan and named it Zong and according to Chairman CM, Mr.
Wang Jianzhou, “the Pakistani operation, Zong, is performing well”.


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[H.M]

I am waiting for the moment when CM will buy Mobilink,which once their official said about beating/buying Mobilink in the market few years back.

[Afzal Anwar]

Beating Mobilink is a far fetch criteria. From the start their perspective is to become Number 2 in the market first and then take up the challenge with Mobilink.

Makes sense too as Mobilink enjoys a very healthy position in the telecom market while competition for Number 2 can still be seen as a possibility. They are close in terms of cell sites nationwide as well, subscriber count is what they are working towards now.

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Afzal Anwar

[H.M]

I think they must try to catch up number 4 before they go for 1,2 &
3........they are by far close to Warid.

- H.M

On Oct 15, 9:13 am, Afzal Anwar <afzalan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Beating Mobilink is a far fetch criteria. From the start their perspective
> is to become Number 2 in the market first and then take up the challenge
> with Mobilink.
>
> Makes sense too as Mobilink enjoys a very healthy position in the telecom
> market while competition for Number 2 can still be seen as a possibility.
> They are close in terms of cell sites nationwide as well, subscriber count
> is what they are working towards now.
>
> --

> *Afzal Anwar*

[Mudassar J Mufti]

@ H.M what if they deal is materialized with any of the operators, i
don't think they will be fifth or 4th then.

[H.M]

Yes thats what their officials said,if they are thinking of any such
thing then the best idea would be to buy giant like Mobilink rather
than going for some merger which is not a good idea at all.That is
what TATA has done in india buying VSNL.

- H.M