Ufone Ghanta Package for Hourly Calls in the Day

Posted by: Aamir Attaa on November 20, 2008 at 12:02 PM

Ufone offers Ghata Package, with somewhat similar rates of its Ramada Offer, with some additional rates and daily subscription fee as well. With Ghanta Package, Ufone customers can call one hour at Rs. 7.25 per on Ufone to Ufone calls between 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM. Customers will have to pay daily subscription fee of Rs. 4.84 per day.

Due to increased tariff and daily subscription fee, customers may hesitate to use Ufone’s Ghanta Package – but still, for those who get engaged in long calls will capitalize it.

How to Change Package

Dial 444 to activate this package today and enjoy calling at the lowest rates for the longest time.

Ufone Ghanta Package tariff details

	Discount Hours (11 AM - 5 PM) Rest of the day Onnet calls Rs. 7.25 / hour Rs. 1.21 / minute Offnet calls Rs. 1.94 / minute Rs. 1.94 / minute

Onnet SMS :       Rs. 0.61 / SMS
Offnet SMS :     Rs. 1.21 / SMS
Daily Subscription Charge :     Rs. 4.84 / day

Note: All Prices are inclusive of all taxes

Terms:

• No late night discount will be available on this package.
• FnF will not be available on this package.
• Voice bucket will not be available on this package.

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Ufone Postpaid Customres Being Charged for Help Line Calls

Posted by: Aamir Attaa on November 17, 2008 at 7:26 PM

In an effort to provide quick services (this is what Ufone claims), Ufone has started charging its postpaid customers too, for all calls made to helpline. Earlier on these helpline calls were charged for prepaid customers only, while postpaid customers were given due respect.

However, in a latest development, postpaid customers will be charged Rs. 0.50 plus taxes for each call made to help line for all customers.

We have written before, how postpaid customers are ignored, thus given least priority and highest rates. At times, it seems like cellular companies, take their postpaid customers as burdon, as they are neither given the value nor the charm that prepaid customers share. Still, its matter of fact that postpaid chaps happen to be the most loyal customers; and they also share premium ARPU for cellular companies.

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Protect your Phone and Data with Telenor Secure All

Posted by: Aamir Attaa on November 14, 2008 at 9:20 AM

Telenor has introduced a service called “Telenor SecureAll” to backup mobile phone data including contacts, SMS and media files on web. Customers availing this service will be able to backup and restore their data stored on mobile phones, anytime – they can delete all data from their phones, remotely (in case mobile phone is lost), furthermore, phone can be (remotely) locked or unlocked as well.

This is a similar service provided by Mobilink “CellSecure” through a Singapore based common vendor, TenCube. It is a client application based service, meaning that – you will have to download a software on your phone in order to use this service.

Service Charges

A flat monthly rental of Rs. 30 + Tax with Free 14 days trial period. Continue Reading This Story

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Caution: Ufone’s Awaz SMS Will Charge you Rs. 2.50 – But No One is Informed

Posted by: Aamir Attaa on November 8, 2008 at 7:34 AM

Ufone has recently started a service, which is prompted when a Ufone number is dialed and is found switched off. For example, if you call a Ufone Number, and it is switched off, the automated voice will say

“App kay matlooba number say jawab mousool nahi ho raha – Agar app Ufone kay customer hain aur Awaz SMS Baijhna chahtay hain tu 99 mila kar matlooba number milayain”

You can send Awaz SMS, as the voice said… This is all good – But, Ufone should have added a notification that this Awaz SMS will charge you Rs. 2.50 plus taxes.

This is first of its kind technique adopted by Ufone (in Pakistan) to capitalize every given opportunity and turning it into revenues – Meaning that offering a service preview, when call is not connected.

But what about customers; I suppose they deserve details for service charges as well, especially for offers which are not advertised.

Should we expect Lux or Head & Shoulder ads, in near future, before call connects?

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Breaking: Free Calls Due to Server Error on Zong

Posted by: Aamir Attaa on November 1, 2008 at 2:51 PM

We have been notified by our readers (self tested as well) that there is a server crash on Zong’s end - hence Zong users are making free calls to any number, yes international numbers too, for free…!

We have notified Zong’s administration about this. Hopefully issue will get resolved soon.

Meanwhile you can enjoy free calls… but make sure that you have no balance in your SIM to avoid balance drop, as this error will get rectified any time.

Update: Issue has been rectified, and lucky Zong Users made free calls during past 50 minutes.

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Mobilink Loosing Its Ground or Already lost it?

Posted by: Aamir Attaa on October 6, 2008 at 1:50 PM

We have seen Mobilink’s declining sales in previous months, which maybe didn’t jolt experts’ mind due to their size and weight of customers. It’s very obvious that a company with subscribers’ base of 31 million can not attain growth rate of even 1 percent or so, also given that cellular subscribers’ teledensity has hit 56 percent mark.

But following figures of international outgoing traffic for cellular companies (through PTCL) for the period of April, May and June 2008 may wide open many eyes. A very reliable industry source has given us these stats (however these stats can’t be considered official – but we are likely to see them in coming PTA’s annual report) which reveals that Mobilink is almost disappearing from the graph.

May 2008 can be considered most shocking month for Mobilink, as they were able to generate merely 56,142 minutes for international calls compared 64,371 in June 2008. For all of three months, Mobilink earned total of 1,581,309 international minutes. Even Zong scored more international traffic than Mobilink with 5,356,917 minutes in the same period.

While on other hands, Ufone’s skyscraper is seen very firm standing at 81,340,900 minutes for three months. Warid is heading Telenor with 18,533,756 minutes, where Telenor gained 12,504,509 minutes. Instaphone seems contented with their 5,438 international outgoing minutes in three months.

This traffic information for international outgoing is just a depiction of market situation. However, we can’t actually assume this international traffic (through PTCL) as directly proportional to local or national traffic these companies have; but due to a fact that international traffic contributes major part in revenues (due to very low local call rates), it is considered vital. We are awaiting official comments from Mobilink on this.

We are not sure about how well Mobilink’s international call half rate offer played for them, but we hope that cellular giant is going to do enough in coming months to retain its position.

Note: These stats represent traffic carried away from PTCL Gateway for International outgoing calls only.

Update: In response to a question that If Mobilink uses any other gateway for international outgoing traffic other than PTCL?? If yes then what proportion of international traffic is routed to PTCL’s gateway? and what share goes to other resources?

Mobilink official replied: ” We use our own LDI (Long Distance International) in addition to PTCL”

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Mobilink Offers International Calls at Half Rate on Eid

Posted by: Aamir Attaa on September 26, 2008 at 3:58 AM

Mobilink’s Eid offer is already here. Customers can now make international calls at half rates… this offer is already on from September 25th, 2008 and will remain valid till October 4th, 2008.

The international call rates as for the promo period are mentioned below:

Terms and Conditions

• This offer is available on all jazz and indigo packages
• Call setup fee of Rs 0.40 per minute will be charged on the first minute for jazz one users

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Rumor: PTCL to Launch New Vfone Package Soon

Posted by: Aamir Attaa on September 21, 2008 at 6:57 AM

According to (officially) unconfirmed news, PTCL is going to introduce new packages for Vfone Customers. PTCL holds a vital market share in WLL market, with huge capacity and coverage.

PTCL is apparently not satisfied with the performance of its WLL unit, despite free home deliver services and other incentives. However, they are expecting that their upcoming Vfone packages will impress WLL users. It merits mentioning here that PTCL is already running V to V free package with different minimum daily charges.

Speculations are there that coming package would facilitate Vfone users to make lowest rates calls to PTCL landlines, other WLL networks and mobile. Package is likely to be introduced before Eid.

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