Company information
Telenor Pakistan at a glance
- Largest single European foreign direct investment in Pakistan
- One of the fastest growing networks in the country with a rich portfolio of products and services
- 28,131 million mobile subscriptions (Q4 2011)
- 3,021 employees (Q4 2011)
- Total revenues of NOK 5,017 million (2011)
- Monthly Mobile ARPU: NOK 15 (Q4 2011)
- The headquarters are located in Islamabad
- CEO: Lars Christian Iuel
Environmental and social initiatives
Telenor Pakistan has taken and continues to implement a number of environmentally-friendly initiatives. The company has for instant launched energy-efficient and eco-friendly solar-powered base stations to increase network coverage.
With coverage reaching deep into many of the remotest areas of Pakistan, Telenor Pakistan is, in some places, the only operator connecting the previously unconnected.
Socio-economic impact of mobile financial services
The forecasts for the socio-economic impact of mobile financial services are impressive for Pakistan. A study conducted by the Boston Consulting Group for Telenor in 2011 show that mobile financial services may reduce financial exclusion by as much as 20 % in the country by 2020. This represents an increase of 3% of the total Gross Domestic Product. The economical and societal contributions of the new business activity include creating one million new jobs and improving health care access.
Telenor is through the service easypaisa offering bill payment, domestic and international remittance, as well as savings and insurance. More than 1.5 million transactions are conducted every month through easypaisa.
Analytical information
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Key figures (NOK in millions)
| 3rd quarter | First three quarters | Year | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2011 | 2010 | 2011 | 2010 | 2010 | |
| Revenues | |||||
| Subscription and traffic | 970 | 923 | 2 892 | 2 775 | 3 697 |
| Interconnect revenues | 194 | 179 | 565 | 533 | 718 |
| Other mobile revenues | 5 | 9 | 17 | 17 | 23 |
| Non-mobile revenues | 84 | 57 | 200 | 154 | 215 |
| Total revenues | 1 252 | 1 169 | 3 675 | 3 480 | 4 653 |
| EBITDA before other items | 450 | 347 | 1 296 | 1 054 | 1 382 |
| Operating profit (loss) | 134 | (29) | 366 | 52 | 2 |
| EBITDA before other items/Total revenues (%) | 35,9 | 29,7 | 35,3 | 30,3 | 29,7 |
| Capex | 130 | 124 | 390 | 459 | 617 |
| No. of subscriptions - Change in quarter/Total (in thousands): | 642 | 38 | 27 309 | 23 836 | 24 692 |
| ARPU - monthly (NOK) | 14 | 15 | 15 | 16 | 16 |
| Exchange rate | 0,0647 | 0,0716 | 0,0709 | ||