Announcement for Telenor customers:
Telenor will charge Balance Inquiries (*444#) from August 20th @ 8 paisa+tax however First 4 balance inquiries per day would be free.
By the way, you can check your balance on Telenor by dialing *444#.
A wake up call for customers of other cellular companies too… Get ready for services that you had been using free for years.
[Via Pakistani Forum]
Telenor has introduced their latest package that offers 10,000 SMS for only Rs. 99, another treat for SMS lovers of the country. But the bad thing is that you can’t send SMS to other networks, yea only Telenor to Telenor SMS… : - (
Pricing (Excluding Taxes)
Package comes with three price plans as following
How to Activate SMS Full Time
How to check Remaining SMS
• Dial *111# to check Free SMS Balance after subscription
Check Points
Today we are going to learn how to activate GPRS, WAP and MMS on Telenor. The process for activating GPRS and MMS on Telenor is very much similar to as what we did for Ufone and Zong, very simple and straight forward. So lets start with activation of GPRS and MMS by sending an SMS
Activation of GPRS, WAP and MMS through SMS
Send a SMS to 131 with your handset make and model to receive Telenor GPRS and MMS setting for your handset in following pattern.
For Internet: Write “Internet” and SMS it to 131.
For WAP: Write “wap” and SMS it to 131.
For MMS: Write “mms” and SMS it to 131.
Your will receive an SMS in response to your message. Simply save it and you are done.
Manual Activation of GPRS, WAP and MMS
You can also configure your handset for GPRS & MMS manually:
Configuration for GPRS
Access Point Name/Node: internet
Login name: Telenor (Case Sensitive)
Password: Telenor (Case Sensitive)
Authentication: Normal
Configuration for WAP
Access Point Name/Node: wap
Login name: Telenor (Case Sensitive)
Password: Telenor (Case Sensitive)
WAP Gateway IP: 172.18.19.11
Port (if required): 9201
Port (if required for HTTP handsets): 8080
Configuration for MMS
Access Point Name/Node: mms
Login name: Telenor (Case Sensitive)
Password: Telenor (Case Sensitive)
WAP Gateway IP: 172.18.19.11
Port (if required): 9201
Port (if required for HTTP handsets): 8080
Relay Server/ Messaging Server: http://mmstelenor or http://172.18.15.1
Telenor GPRS and MMS Prices
Rs. 15 Per MB (Excluding Taxes)
Rs. 5 Per MMS
MMS Receiving is free
Or for more help Call 345 : - )
Mr. Jon Eddy Abdullah (right pic) is going to be New CEO of Telenor Pakistan. He will succeed Mr. Tore Johnsen (left pic) - who is moving to Telenor’s Thai operation DTAC – in second week of next month.
Jon Eddy Abdullah brings in the experience of more than 15 years with him, most recent one as Chief Operating Officer in Maxis Telecommunications in Malaysia and Chief Technology Officer in DiGi.
“We are very pleased to appoint Jon as Telenor Pakistan’s new Chief Executive Officer. Besides his extensive experience, the Board of Directors appreciates his knowledge of the Telenor Group from his earlier assignment in DiGi. We are confident that Jon has the best qualifications for further developing an already successful company,” said Arve Johansen, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Telenor Pakistan.
Mr. Tore Johnsen, who has been unchanged CEO of Telenor Pakistan since the inception in 2004, is appointed new CEO of Telenor’s Thai operation DTAC, which currently has 16.7 million subscribers.
Under the leadership of Tore Jhonson’s, Telenor Pakistan geew from zero to 18 million subscribers since March 2005, making the company the second largest operator.
Telenor has introduced a new package under its djuice brand that is aimed at those who love phone chatting at night. Yes it offers free calls at night from djuice to djuice and to Telenor Numbers. Offer is apparently not that bad, especially when only Rs. 3.99 per day (excluding tax) are deducted and you are offered to call your F&F numbers for FREE all night long! Not only that, you can still use the very attractive day time rate of Rs. 0.5+tax/30 sec to call the same F&F numbers
How to Subscribe to Jaagtay Raho
Its simple, write an SMS-> MIGRATE & send it to 345.
In response to this SMS you get following message…
Dear Customer, please select the price plan. Reply with your choice as 1,2,3,4,5.
1. New – djuice Jaagtay Raho
2. Talkshawk A1
3. Talkshawk Har Second
4. Talkshawk 30 Second
5. Talkshawk har Minute
Reply with 1 to activate djuice Jaagtay Raho, simple na
Call Pricing:
FnF Calls 1am-6am: Free (call setup fee of Rs. 0.05 will apply)
FnF Calls 8am-12am: Rs. 0.5+tax/30sec
FnF Calls 6am-8am & 12am-1am: Rs. 4+tax/HOUR
Check points
How to convert your number to Telenor djuice?
For those users who are with Telenor Calling plans can convert to Djuice with up given method. That is sending an SMS - > MIGRATE and send it to 345
Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has finally issued its quarterly report on Pakistan Telecom Industry for first quarter of year 2008. In coming few days I will focus on the report and will extract the summarized information for ProPakistani Readers. In today’s post I will mainly focus on telecom sector’s economic facts and figures.
Local and Foreign Direct Investments
Following the trends of other industries in Pakistan, Telecom sector showed a significant decline for local and/or foreign direct investments . Only major investment was by Oman Telecom when they reached a deal with World Call to purchase its 65 percent shares that valued US 200 million dollars.
Along with a nominal portion of investment (compared to previous periods) was contributed by cellular companies who are pushing their network further into the country side. Cellular companies spent total of US 433 million dollars in this quarter. However, recent investment announcements made by Warid and Zong is going to reshuffle this graph in coming 1 year.
During the first quarter of 2008, total of US$ 156.6 million were brought into Pakistan under FDI account; which showed a decline rate of 47 percent when compared to previous quarter. This decline was due to geo-political situation and instability in the country, resulting overall decline of FDI by 17 percent. Another reason that may come into consideration for low FDI is due to the fact that local financial market has enabled cellular companies to generate revenues locally.
Other than cellular companies, other telecos including LDIs, LLs, WLLs repeatedly showcased low investments.
GST/CED Revenues
We all know that Telecom sector has been greatly contributing to the national exchequer through GST, CED, SIM Activation Tax, withholding tax, regulatory fee, contribution for USF and other duties.
This share was PKR 8.9 billion in year 2001-02, which gained momentum after the emergence of Ufone, Telenor and Warid Telecom, taking the share to reach PKR 36.3 billion in 2006-07.
Price war amongst the telecom companies has taken down the prices towards the lowest possible limit. Consequently, the CED and GST contribution has poised. Despite the addition of over 25 million customers in cellular base in 2007-08, the net increase in CED/GST was notable at all.
In first quarter of 2008 total of PKR 10.89 billion was given away to government by telecom companies/subscribers under these taxes, which is almost the same as of three previous quarters.
CED, GST, SIM Activation Tax, Revenues for all cellular companies are shown in following graphs
Mobilink Leading here for GST/CED contribution with PKR 3576.6 million, Telenor stands second with PKR 2438.5 million. Notable point about Ufone is that they contribute almost half of Telenor’s share, that is PKR 1275.2 million; Ufone stands at third slightly ahead of Warid Telecom which gave away PKR 1118.2 million. New enterant, Zong is at fifth with PKR 508 million…we may see their share climbing up in coming months.
SIM activation tax is directly dependent on the number of new subscribers aquired by any company. It maybe recalled that Government charges PKR 500 per SIM as Activation Tax. Total Activation tax of PKR 4551.5 million was collected in first quarter 2008, almost PKR 700 million less thna of previous quarter.
PTA has included cellular companes’ revenues stats for the first time in their quarterly report, which clearly suggests the performance of cellular companies in terms of revenues. Mobilink again leading the gang, with Telenor at second slot. Ufone and Warid are lagging far behind.
Telecom Imports
Telecom imports remained at US $ 964 million in first 3 quarters of 2007-08. Imports of Telecom equipment saw a decline of US 42 million dollars when compared to previous quarter. In contrary handset imports rose up from US 80.3 million dollars in previous quarter to US 109.9 million dollars in Q1 2008.
Note: All stats, graphs, and other details are taken from PTA’s quarterly Report for Q1 2008. Please let me know if anything is wrongly quoted or needs any addition.
Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has released the latest stats for cellular subscribers in the country. Also reported by Romail Kenneth of daily times, the breaking news is that Telenor has snatched the second position from Ufone, while Mobilink still at top with huge lead of almost 14 million subscribers.
Telenor was almost one million subscribers behind Ufone in January 2008; however, they significantly geared their sales in first two quarters of 2008 and grabbed 2 million new customers in only 6 months. This was not only the heights number of customers earned by any cellular company, but also it helped Telenor to sit firm at second position.
Since the year 2005 Ufone had retained its second position and was considered to be the second biggest mobile phone operator in Pakistan.
I am not sure what exactly made this to happen, I am still thinking over the decisive elements that made Telenor Pakistan to cross Ufone. My initial thought is the Heavy Advertising that Telenor has been carrying throughout the year. Otherwise, packages from both companies are going neck to neck; with Ufone even little better in services. Telenor took some brave decision during the second quarter, to directly compete with Mobilink and Zong…this gave them the positive marking hence fetching more costumers.
Subscribers’ Details (As Per May 2008)
Mobilink: 31,958,597
Telenor: 17,841,074
Ufone: 17,800,424
Warid: 15,114,678
Zong: 3,662,099
InstaPhone: 321,204 (As per April 2008)
Total Subscribers: 86,698,076
Mobile Tele-Density : 53.9 Percent
Interesting point is that, we had 85 Million subscribers in April 2008, however, in May 2008 we have managed to hit 86.69 Million mark; but what happened to those at least 5.6 million blocked SIMs? Are they still counted in these subscribers?
Mobile Number Portability was introduced in Pakistan on March 23rd, 2007. It’s been almost 15 months, and the fact is that I had just forgotten its existence in our country. Needless to say that I never thought of switching over to another network, despite my carrier overcharges me almost every month.
I don’t want to re-cover the whole story of MNP’s implementation here, those who are interested in knowing more about how it happened please view this detailed post by Babar Bhatti at Pakistaniat.Com.
However, I was able to recollect my memories, thanks to this advertisement (Published in all major Newspapers on June 16, 2008) that reminds (or claims) that MNP is still there and it is working. There is no need to say that cellular companies do remember their billions of investments they made to make their networks MNP compatible.
What I want to discuss here is that if the MNP has totally failed? Should we just forget it? Or subscribers should still keep this option with them for future, maybe after 2/3 years to better select their cellular company without changing their current cell numbers.
Obviously, none of the operator was willing to implement MNP, that’s obvious; as porting out operator is the one who initiates the process (documentation etc). Hence, for instance, Warid Telecom will not heartedly welcome any of its subscribers to move away. While eying the trends and history, we should not expect any co-operation from operators in this regards. I have heard many stories, from friends and others, who just wanted to taste MNP; but gave up due to the process that involves repetitive problems caused by porting out operator (their current operator)
Another element that restricts or does not encourage subscribers to switch their network is the growing competition amongst the cellular companies; who are made to revise or introduce new packages at least once month if not twice. We have so many examples for this; let’s look at this Mobilink’s Jazz One Package which was defeated by Telenor’s A One in only 24 hours. So, customers don’t really opt for MNP when it comes to pricing; or even if the pricing is not that favorable to them, they consider waiting for a week or couple to get a better deal.
Frankly, I don’t see any good point to utilize MNP’s offer; stats actually back me, as I remember Maj. Gen. (R) Shahzada Alam Malik, Chairman, Pakistan Telecommunication Authority, once stated that he expects around 1.5 to 2 percent of cellular subscribers to use MNP. However, I don’t see any such thing happening till now.
Well, in my opinion, MNP was just an addition to portfolio of Pakistan Telecom Sector that we may (or may not) use in coming 3/4 years.
For those who think that this is the time to switch to another network; find below the procedure for getting benefited of Mobile Number Portability.
Those who want more ins and outs of this process may find this document quite helpful to them.
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