Ufone
Pak Telecommunication Mobile Limited, doing business as Ufone, is a Pakistani mobile 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.
Ufone has a subscriber base of 28 million as of December 2025, among which 19 million are 4G/LTE subscribers. It has a market share of 13%, the least among all four mobile operators.
History
Ufone was founded in July 1998 and began operations in January 2001.Rashid Khan was appointed acting CEO of Ufone in August 2017. Rashid Khan, president and CEO of both Ufone and PTCL, died in December 2020.
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. In 2019, PTCL and Ufone were merging a number of their departments.
In 2021, it purchased its own 4G spectrum license for US$279 million.
Radio frequency summary
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 to increase network capacity.Ufone has re-farmed their 900 MHz spectrum in Karachi, Lahore, Rawalpindi/Islamabad, Abbottabad, Sheikhupura and Sialkot.
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.