Services at Peshawar were started in April 1991 as a satellite of the Islamabad exchange, linked via PTCL network.

[2] Instaphone appealed the decision and filed a petition challenging the national Mobile Cellular Policy of 2004.

Due to a lack of telephone number porting laws in Pakistan, Instaphone kept a large TDMA network from the 1990s up until the middle of the 2000s.

Many North American standard TDMA phones showed up in Dubai en route to Pakistan, usually bonded by third parties who kept satellite offices there.

The majority of these North American phones were sold on the grey market allegedly laundering money for the Indian mafia.

Hundreds of Pakistani immigrants across North America tried to take part in this opportunity and many lost their life savings over fraudulent letters of credit.