Islamabad: Jun 18th, 2012 – Ufone, the leader in innovation and services was bestowed the best GSM operator award by Pakistan International Freight Forwarders Association (PIFFA). PIFFA was established in 2005 and became the sole representative body of Pakistan Freight Forwarders. The voting was done by PIFFA members which includes shipping lines, freight forwarders and transportation companies. Ufone received the highest votes amongst the five Telco’s operating in the country.

This is a tremendous achievement by Ufone which reflects the satisfaction level of their enterprise customers. Pakistan International Freight Forwarders Association is a non-profitable organisation representing more than 500 companies based in Pakistan providing Land, Air, Ocean Combined Transport and other Logistics services.

The role of the Association includes support for the Pakistan trade worldwide, the development and the maintenance of healthy international freight services industry within Pakistan. Ufone has been the recipient of such prestigious awards in the past as well, winning the best advertising campaign award 2010-2011 by the Pakistan Advertising society (PAS); the Customer Services Innovation Award at the Global Telecom Business Innovation Awards (London) 2011 and the most Innovative Mobile Plan at the Tele-Time international Industry Excellence Awards 2012.

Mr. Salman Wassay, Chief Commercial Officer at Ufone said that this is indeed a milestone for Ufone. Pakistan is a country with a growing and diverse corporate and enterprise sector and we get to experience a number of challenging and unique service practices on a daily basis. The team at Ufone strives to be the best at what we do and this award is recognition of our hard work.

About Ufone: Ufone is an Etisalat Group Company with its presence in all the major cities of Pakistan along with a comprehensive coverage across all major towns, villages and tehsil headquarters of the country. The company employs more than 3,850 people and operates with a network of more than 375 franchises and 22 company-owned customer service centers along with a distribution network of 150,000 outlets nationwide.