Mobilink Call Secure - A Perfect Mobile Security Solution

Posted by: Aamir Attaa on October 5, 2008 at 12:37 PM

Mobilink in collaboration with Singapore based TenCube has brought this service called “Mobilink Call Secure”, which was initially developed for Singapore Police and Military use.

Mobilink CellSecure is Mobile phone security software that allows you track down the thief, get alerted when your mobile phone is stolen!. Remotely lock your phone or disable access to Messages, call log and phone book in case your phone is stolen – At same time, you can auto backup your data on Mobilink servers and also remotely delete your data from phone  – That’s perfect security.

Mobilink CallSecure can auto lock your phone in case SIM is changed (You can associate multiple SIMs with your phone so that it is not triggered if you use more than one SIM).

How to subscribe?

Before subscribing, you need to make sure that your phone is supported. Click here to check list of supported phones. Also you need to have GPRS activated for your number. (This is an application based service still you must be using Mobilink connection to acquire this service)

Afterwards, it’s simple! Just SMS “REG” to 50007, and you should receive a SMS with a link.

From this link, you will have to download Mobilink CellSecure, follow the simple installation process and get done!

Charges

A monthly subscription charge of Rs.36.3 (including taxes) apply

For further reading and FAQs click here

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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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CFO, Mobilink Missing after Marriott’s Suicide Attack

Posted by: Aamir Attaa on September 22, 2008 at 3:05 PM

Mr. Tarek F. Foudah, Chief Financial Officer, Mobilink is still missing since the blast hit Marriott Hotel Islamabad on Saturday evening, right after Iftari. Mobilink administration has confirmed that Mr. Tarek is still missing, and they are awaiting information updates from authorities concerned. Mr. Tarek is an Egyptian and he is heading finance, the most crutial, departmet of the cellular compamy.

Massive suicide attack killed at least 54 people and as many as 274 injured, many of them seriously, when an explosives-laden truck rammed into the main entrance of the Marriott Hotel, Islamabad on Saturday… just hours after President Asif Zardari’s address to parliament. Many analysts have termed the incident the 9/11 of Pakistan.

Update: Search operation has been completed after 72 hours of blast. When contacted Mobilink official, he said that he can not officially confirm anything before they get response from concerned authories. May Allah help us all in this crisis

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Recharge Mobilink Jazz Numbers from UK and US with EzeTop

Posted by: Aamir Attaa on September 11, 2008 at 9:50 AM

Mobilink has partnered with the globally renowned company, ‘ezetop’, to enable overseas Jazz users to enjoy the benefits of recharging their Jazz Numbers from United Kingdom (UK), United States (US) or or sending credit to their friends and family members back home in Pakistan. Service would be arriving soon for those who are in Gulf countries.

This service can be especially handy for Jazz users in UK, US and across the Gulf for recharging their Jazz connections while roaming internationally.

• In order to use ezetop for Jazz Numbers, go to the nearest store and ask the cashier for Mobilink Jazz recharge in the domination of your choice
• Once you pay the cashier, you will receive a printed receipt with instructions and the HRN number.
• You then send the HRN / PIN home to be used as normal (SMS, email etc.)

With over 35,000 retail outlets, ezetop provides you the convenience to roam like you do at home.

For additional information on how the service works please visit:

United Kingdom: https://www.ezetop.com/uk/en/how-it-works-retail.aspx
United States: https://www.ezetop.com/us/en/how-it-works-retail.aspx

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Get Free Minutes on Recharge for Mobilink Jazz Numbers

Posted by: Aamir Attaa on September 1, 2008 at 7:30 AM

Mobilink has apparently adopted a policy to preserve their existing customers, instead of fetching new ones. In an effort to retain their existing customers, Mobilink today announced an offer of free minutes on first five credit reload for all Mobilink Prepaid Numbers.

For first five credit recharge through scratch card or Jazz Load (but should be more than Rs. 50) you get free minutes depending on the amount of recharge. This offer is valid until September 25, 2008.

How to Claim your Free Minutes

You can subscribe by just sending a blank SMS to 150. It is a one time subscription and will be charged at Rs. 0.25/SMS + tax

Note: You will not be able to get free minutes until you have sent the subscription SMS. So you must send it before recharging.

Terms and Conditions

• Free minutes are for Mobilink to Mobilink calls only.
• One time subscription charges are 25 paisas + tax.
• Unused free minutes will be confiscated upon expiry of validity which is mentioned above.
• Free minutes would be transferred to your account within 3 days of recharge.
• To confirm transfer of free minutes and check the free minutes balance dial 123 and press 8.
• Free minutes would be given on 1st 5 recharges of Rs. 50 or above.
• This offer is applicable on all Jazz Packages (PCO and Jazz Load Retailer Packages are not included).
• This is a limited time offer.

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Mobilink Introduces SMS Spam Filter

Posted by: Aamir Attaa on August 26, 2008 at 2:00 PM

We have seen before Ufone offering Call Block Service, through which the customers could block unwanted calls. Now Mobilink has stepped forward with a facility to block SPAM text messages on your prepaid and postpaid Mobilink Numbers.

Mobilink’s website has no information regarding this service, despite a Print Advertisment in today’s papers. Adverts reads a healthy note describing the goods and bads of SMS text messages, and then says at the end… “If you want to avail SMS Spam Filter, then call 111″

Good for those customers who are on the list of advertisers and those who get frequent text messages from unwanted numbers. No words yet regarding the pricing or the total number of allowed blocked numbers.

But just a question, what happened to Do Not Call Registry, i remember it was proposed by PTA somewhere in previous 2/3 months…!

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Free Unlimited Mobilink to Mobilink Calls

Posted by: Aamir Attaa on August 22, 2008 at 10:48 PM

You would be amazed to hear that a contributor claims that he has been using Free and Unlimited Mobilink to Mobilink Calls for last two months… wow! That’s really amazing, and i would love to test this trick.

How it Works:

Step 1: First of all activate Mobitunes Service, yes mobi tunes is the main thing required in this trick. Once you MobiTune Service is activated, don’t change your default Mobi Tune, which would be “Hum Bolain Mohabbat ki Zuban”….!

Step 2: Now call from your friend’s number to your own number… and you will hear “Hum Bolain Mohabat ki Zuban”

After a while, in 20/22 seconds, the automated voice will speak up and say “Apkey Matloba Number number sey jawab musul nehi ho rha”

At very this instace, when operator say “App kay matlooba number….” pick your phone … and your call will be connected, and you can talk freely without eyeing your call timer.

You can also note the time, about how long Mobi Tune is played before the operator says “App kay matlooba number…” for example its 30 seconds… just note this time. Now whenever someone will call you, you are supposed to pick the phone after 30 seconds, and allow your friends to call you for free…!

I will test it myself too, but let me know if its working… Remember its a hack, so enjoy unlimited calling, until its debugged…!

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Silence from Telcos - Is Everything Alright?

Posted by: Aamir Attaa on August 16, 2008 at 11:11 AM

Cellular companies of Pakistan are facing some tough time inside, as reported by an inside official of a cellular company. They are apparently facing bunch of problems in parallel. These problems are making Think Tanks to decisively operate their minds and bring the lost glory of mobile phone companies.

Mobilink is worst hit of current situation, as opinioned by an telecom analyst that I spoke with. He was actually backed by some facts and the ground realities to support his voice. He said that Mobilink is planning to reshape their policies and strategies to tackle the situation created. That is maybe the reason that Mobilink has gone in passive mode in terms of announcing new Value Added Services and/or any packages (that they used to do every other week). It merits mentioning that latest major activity from Mobilink was back in June’s first week. (however, they launched couple of CSR campagns that included launch of Zeb and Hanya’s album and a Movie that they sponsored). Mobilink is specifically running corporate advertisements on TV channels to keep itself alive, otherwise there is nothing new from them for last couple of months.

Same is the case with Ufone, besides couple of new Value Added Services; they are advertising Uwon for last 6 weeks now. Warid and Telenor are also the effectives. I was eagerly waiting for August 14th, 2008 where I was expecting any special offer from cellular companies or the PTCL regarding our Independence Day, but the day ended with nothing much than just a deceiving package from Warid and the patriotic advertisements.

This quietness by cellular companies can be termed as the bread limit of their tariff plans that they have reached. But the decrement in Sales is still a question mark (given that we have not reached the saturation level in terms of cellular subscribers)

There can be possibly at least 3 major reasons that have pulled down the growth and to some extent the revenues’ graph for cellular companies substantially.

1 – Severe Regulatory Campaign: We have seen Pakistan Telecommunication very active in recent months, after the pressure was exerted from Senate’s Standing Committee to cap sale of illegal SIMs. These actions by PTA (which includes warning to cellular companies, blocking of illegal SIMs, raid on Franchises and Retail Shops) have affected the sale and consequently the growth of companies’ subscribers.

2 – Increased Taxes on Telecom Services: Cellular companies are also not happy with the increment in taxes on Telecom services. Increases taxes have taken up the pricing by almost 6 percent, which has brought down the calling ratio by at least 8-9 percent. Increment in taxes on Mobile Phones has also hindered the way to healthy revenues for cellular companies

3 – Emergence of Zong: Introduction of a new cellular company always works a speed breaker for already operating companies. Zong, which actually did well with their launch acted as hand break on cellular companies’ speed. However, this impact may not last long, but when it was coupled with other two factors; Zong appeared as a negative effect on other cellular companies.

As discussed above, policy makers have joined their head, to think out what possible goodies they can do for their investors in order to hike their revenues and stock values. For the purpose, downsizing can be one of the options in their minds…!

These tightening revnues may cause telcos to use other illegal means of genrating revenues, such as using illegal voice termination (by the way Garmeen Phone of Telenor has done this in Bangladesh). Along with Upcoming 3G license auction is going to cause them spend more money to maintain their name in the market.

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