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Zong () or China Mobile Pakistan is a pan Pakistani mobile network operator headquartered in Islamabad, which offers voice and data services ranging from postpaid and prepaid plans, 2G, 3G and 4G services, mobile banking to fixed telephony. It is the first oversea setup of China Mobile through acquisition of a license from Millicom to operate a GSM network in Pakistan in 2008.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=About ZONG )〕 Zong is a 100% subsidiary of China Mobile.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=ZONG: CHINA MOBILE IN PAKISTAN )〕 It is Pakistan’s second largest GSM mobile service provider and third largest mobile service in terms of subscriber base of over 25.6 million. It has a market share of 19% among cellular operators in the country.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Zong Achieves 25 Million Customers )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=ZONG manages to boost its growth to 34.1% during 2012 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mobile Phone Users in Pakistan Reach 136.5 Million )〕 ==History== Zong commenced operations as Paktel by Cable & Wireless in 1991. It was the first company granted a free license to carry out cellular phone services in Pakistan. It carried out AMPS services until 2004, when the company launched GSM services. In 2003, Millicom Corporation, who at that time were majority owners of Instaphone, bought Paktel from Cable & Wireless. Millicom installed a new management team headed by John Tumelty, former CEO of Instaphone, and Chief Financial Officer David Ordman. On January 22, 2007, Millicom International Cellular S.A. stated that it would sell its 88.86 percent stake in Paktel Limited to China Mobile for $284 million, which includes the repayment of intercompany debt. The sale implies an enterprise value for Paktel of $460 million, Millicom said in its press release. Merrill Lynch advised China Mobile on the transaction. On 4 May 2007, Paktel Limited was renamed to China Mobile Pakistan. On May 16, 2007 China Mobile announced that it had increased its stake in CMPak to 100%.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 May 2007 Archived Press Clippings : LTC International, Telecom Headlines and Industry News )〕 On April 1, 2008 Paktel was rebranded to Zong.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=China Mobile re-brands Paktel as Zong )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Zong Pakistan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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