China Mobile is to invest 400 million dollars to extend its network in Pakistan said the company's CEO Wang Jianzhou here on Saturday. Wang said the company would step up improving sales channels and building new brands in Pakistan next year, adding that a wireless data transmission system will be built in the country.
Pakistan boasts a population of 160 million with young people taking a great proportion and its telecommunication market is one of the fastest growing markets in the world.
China Mobile announced in January it had reached an agreement with Millicom International Cellular to buy the Luxembourg-based company's 88.86 percent share of Paktel Limited, Pakistan's fifth largest mobile phone operator. The deal valued the Pakistani Company at 460 million dollars.
That was the first time that China Mobile had acquired a foreign telecommunication company of "strategic significance". Last year, the Chinese telecommunication giant acquired all shares of Hong Kong's fourth largest mobile operator, China Resources Peoples Telephone Co Ltd and a 19.9-percent stake in Phoenix TV.
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