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PTCL introduces new Vfone line rents

by Admin - on Mar 6th 2012 - No Comments
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In line with its sustained efforts to facilitate customers with value-added services, Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) has introduced new line rents for unlimited use of Vfone to Vfone and Vfone to PSTN calls for all its existing and new Vfone subscribers. This remarkable initiative will result in a reduction of Rs.5...

Jazz Jazba Valentine’s Day Offer

by Asad Ahmad - on Feb 11th 2012 - No Comments

This Valentine’s Day, Jazba brings for the first time in Pakistan, the power of 2: An amazing new offer and a very special music video.

Jazba customers can share their love with Heart to Heart Offer; an amazing offer with FREE Calls and SMS to one special number, 24 hours a day!

To enjoy Heart to Heart Offer, customer will dial *141*Special number# For e.g. *141*03001234567#

Subscription charges:

The subscription charges for this offer are Rs.5+tax/day

Terms and Conditions:

  1. This offer is effective till 22st February,2012
  2. Special number can only be a Mobilink number
  3. This offer is valid for Jazba customers only
  4. Call setup of 1 paisa+tax/call will apply
  5. Terms and conditions apply
  6. Government taxes apply

PTCL Introduce SMS Complaint Service

by Asad Ahmad - on Dec 21st 2011 - No Comments

PTCL is offering complaint registration through SMS from their cell phones with the following objectives.

  • Provide a swift complaint registration channel to our Landline and Broadband customers
  • Elimination of customer wait time at our call centers for complaint registration

 

5 easy steps for SMS complaint:

Step 1 type : CMP
Step 2 type : Area code and landline number
Step 3 type : Product code
(For Landline: LL
For Broadband: BB)
Step 4 : Send to 05 1218 1218
Step 5 : Receive complaint registration number
e.g., type : CMP 042 3586 XXXX BB
OR
Simply type “HELP” and send to 05 1218 1218

Get free minutes,SMS & GPRS From Easypaisa:Telenor

by Admin - on Oct 17th 2011 - No Comments

Easypaisa has introduced convenience in the lives of its customers, and is continuously changing the way financial transactions are carried out. Customers can now transfer money and pay their bills anytime, anywhere using their mobile accounts.

Now easypaisa brings an amazing offer for all mobile account customers i.e.

Send a fund transfer of more than Rs.1000 or pay your utility bills through your Easypaisa mobile account and get

Free minutes and SMS to Any Network, and internet usage for 10 days

  • 150 Minutes ( 75 mins Any Network and 75 mins Telenor Network)
  • 1500 SMS (Any Network)
  • 15 MB GPRS (internet)

Offer Details

  • Sending a fund transfer of more than Rs.1000 or paying your utility bill through your Easypaisa mobile account and registered on the Easypaisa system will be considered to be a qualifying transaction.
  • This offer is applicable for all new and existing Talkshawk and Djuice mobile account customers (pre-paid customers) only. The validity of this offer will be applicable for 10 days from the date a qualifying transaction is made. The total validity is for 10 days however in the event that a customer makes a second qualifying transaction prior to the expiry of the first validity period then the free minutes, SMS and MB (internet) will be added to the remaining balance and the next 10 days start from the date of the second qualifying transaction and the same shall apply to a third and last qualifying transaction.
  • Mobile account customers can qualify for the offer for a maximum of 3 times in a month regardless of the number of qualifying transactions made.
  • This offer is valid for a limited time.

Vfone Offer NON-STOP Package

by Admin - on Jul 24th 2011 - No Comments

PTCL Introduces NON-STOP Package for its valued Vfone customers

Package Details:

  • Vfone to Vfone :                        Unlimited Free                             (Only call set-up charges of Rs. 1.00 per call applies)
  • Vfone to PTCL Landline :             Unlimited Free                            (Only call set-up charges of Rs. 1.00 per call applies)
  • Vfone to Mobile & other LLOs :  Rs. 1.30 per min
  • Vfone Internet :                          Rs. 2.00 per 15 min
  • SMS to all networks :                  Rs. 0.30 per SMS
  • Daily Line Rent :                          Rs. 10.00 per day

Key Highlights:

  • PTCL Vfone has the country’s largest WLL coverage
  • Available with the liberty of prepaid & Post paid options
  • PTCL Vfone supports high speed internet with CDMA 1x technology
  • SMS facility to and from all networks at very nominal rate

Terms & Conditions:

  • Existing customers can dial 1015(3) to change their package
  • First package change is free for all customers
  • All rates are exclusive of taxes
  • For further information / Ordering:
  • For further information please dial 1236 or visit nearest PTCL franchise or One Stop Shop.

Telenor TalkShawk Offer Sonay Ki Jeet

by Admin - on Jun 23rd 2011 - 150 Comments

Telenor Offer a Chance to Win Gold Daily. From 19-06-2011 to 16-09-2011 all Telenor subscribers,who participate in the “Talkshawk Sonay Ki Jeet” SMS campaign,have the opportunity to win. Simply play and win Gold Daily.

Gold Prize Details:

  • 2 x 10g Daily Prize
  • 2 x 25g Weekly Prize
  • 1Kg Grand Prize

How to participate:

Entering the campaign is very easy just send at least one SMS to 7775* from your Telenor number and you start your participation.

Step 1 Send an SMS with the keyword “TS” to 7775*,or Dial *888# to activate… As a reply you will receive a welcome messageand a question with 2 answering options!

Step 2 Send an SMS with text 1 or 2 indicating the answer, which you think is the correct one. You will receive a reply SMS notifying you whether your answer is correct or wrong and a new question will follow.

Step 3 Keep answering correctly to the questions and you will get more points to win the prizes.

Chrages:
Price per SMS to number 7775 is 8 rupees + tax. For more information call 345 from any Telenor number.

Winners Announcement:

Every day:

a lucky drawn participant wins 10g of Gold. The winner must have sent at least one SMS during that specific date. Every day, the participant having the most points also wins 10g of Gold, guaranteed. The winner must have sent at leastone SMS during that specific date.

Every Sunday:

a lucky drawn participant wins 25g of Gold.The winner must have sentat least one SMS during that specific date.Every Sunday,the participant having the most points also wins 25g of Gold, guaranteed. The winner must have sent at least one SMS during that specific Sunday.

At the end of the promotion:

the best player with the most points become the grand winner, who wins 1kg of Gold, guaranteed.All winners of the daily, Sunday and final prizes will be informedwith a phone call and their names will be announcedon this website, in the “Winners” section.

Check the Winners Here
Useful Tips

1.Transferring your points:

By sending at least 1 SMS (regardless of the content of the sms) to 8888 every day from 19-06-2011 to 16-09-2011, you transfer all your collected points to go for all the prizes!

2.Collecting more points:

During the contest you will have many opportunities to collect bonus points that boost your result. Take advantage of them, exploit the challenges and give the right answers to as many questions as you can and increase your points to be the top player of the day and the promotion!

3.If you have more questions about the game:

For any additional information please call the Telenor number 345 (for Telenor customers only) to talk with an operator. The line is open for Telenor subscribers 24 hours every day.

Nokia Introduce Symbian Anna

by Admin - on Jun 21st 2011 - 2 Comments

Nokia introduced its newest Symbian software update, called Symbian Anna.Nokia X7-00, the latest Nokia mobile phone that carries the Symbian Anna OS.Nokia announced that it will start shipping Nokia N8s, E7s, C7s and C6-01s with Symbian Anna in July. If you already own one of these devices, you can download the software by the end of August. Upgrading to a ‘new look’ phone is free and easy. You can update your device with your PC or over-the-air from the software updater in the phone. The Symbian Anna upgrade gives you a set of new icons, a faster web browser, improved text input and enhanced maps. In other words, your phone will get a free make-over, giving you a better experience while remaining reliable and easy to use.

The Best part of Symbian Anna is split screen view while typing, so users can see their message thread. There is also virtual portrait QWERTY for quick, one handed typing. And the web browser is faster and easier to use, delivering quicker page loads and improved navigation.

Ovi Maps has been refreshed with simpler and quicker search, new public transportation routes and check-in to Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare or local social networks. You can also share places via email and SMS, even with friends using non-Nokia phones.
Business users will benefit from instant messaging with Microsoft Communicator Mobile, email enhancements including full meeting request support, and true business grade security with hardware accelerated encryption. There is also easy and secure intranet access for people who want to get on their company intranet. The social client has been improved as well. Now you can see people’s status updates in their contact card, as well as retweet and view your follower list in Twitter.

Low-Price Bulk SMS

by Asad Ahmad - on Jun 17th 2011 - No Comments

Even though discount costs and cost-effective selling prices is definitely an crucial driver of revenue, it really is also really worth recalling that old adage that “you obtain that which you obtain.Inch Bulk SMS is not any exception. Firms can pick involving getting to pay significantly less now and having to shell out later when troubles occur, or obtaining to spend a minor for any greater general support without having any glitches.

When it entails deciding on bulk SMS organization for the cellular texting, added factors besides expense ought to be borne in your mind. Feel about the coverage, reliability, network good quality and consumer help, along with the costs of the cell texting service.

Products & Services: Does bulk SMS business supply the rich quantity of features making use of its cellular texting support? And also provides a couple of strategies employed in delivering messages, what genuinely valuable additional performance will it provide? For instance will it give a HLR lockup service to guarantee that you are able to verify your contact details? Making use of HLR study to double-verify telephone numbers and customer identification saves funds by acquiring rid of invalid amounts.

Additional characteristics to take into account are texting arranging and delivery status. Does the majority SMS business offer two-way texting, to ensure that customers can surely stick to-up in your Funny SMS messages? Obtaining capabilities like these can support you preserve cash over time, as all the data in your cellular texting is instantaneously offered.

Coverage & reliability: Many bulk SMS companies will declare they have total protection to all more than the planet. The query for you is not only the policy, nevertheless the reliability also. If their major route is blocked, have they acquired a similarly successful backup? When picking a provider have a great lengthy take into account the operators and nations they interact with, and request need to they have a number of path to that vacation destination.

Performs this backup support incorporate full functionalities from the key route? Make specific the secondary route supplies binary message, provides Unicode figures (that would adapt message for hieroglyphic languages for example Chinese or possibly a Cyrillic alphabets for case in point Greek), which it’ll concatenate lengthy messages. Even basic such items as an location time stamp are important. Don’t forget, the backup routes related with a valuable bulk SMS supplier is heading to be every bit as great his or her major route.

The Effectiveness of An Attractive Text

by Asad Ahmad - on Jun 17th 2011 - 1 Comment

Ought to be reality, practically nothing could be a lot more satisfying that getting out of bed to some cute SMS from the good friend or a person you like. It may possibly be only a adorable text, but there’s a good deal strength inside it that it may possibly enhance or preserve long term bonds. Envision for illustration acquiring a adorable message from somebody you have skipped for any really prolonged time. A single seamless comfort, appreciated, inexpensive the sender located time to get it carried out can make a particular person come to feel unique.

Nonetheless, it’s not every time that selected wants to receive a trendy SMS from buddies and family, at times this may also be nutritious for you to transmit a single. A cute good morning text may also make you feel fresh. You are in a position to for instance deliver a fantastic SMS to a person who’s special for you, and permit them know the way you appreciate them. By so carrying out, the particular person receiving the charming message might also be surprised, and adore you for finding time to transmit one. But now you ask , why is a lovely SMS? Effectively, an adorable SMS has associated to 3 primary issues, that are its subject material, length, and time that it is distributed.

 

Really merely, an adorable text is a which is short and exact, and never ever these a lengthy time. Suffice it to discover that the lengthy text may possibly be uninteresting, and also the recipient may not commit to memory all of the desired particulars. For this subject material, an adorable SMS should contain information which is attractive, exciting, making the recipient experience special. Really simply, the sweet message should make the recipient come to feel appreciated, and also the content material must use to them, their demands, lives, or what they’re dealing with in existence.

Lastly, time of delivering a note will even see regardless of whether the recipient goodies it like every single other, or with a handful of special therapy. These who are in really like are keen on delivering interesting messages in the center of the evening when everyone is asleep, and delay tablets work miracles. Delivering an adorable SMS in the late evening, or morning several hours might have the recipient wondering that which was in your thoughts such unusual hrs, and they’ll get pleasure from it.

SMS histroy, Pakistan Vs Global Trends

by Admin - on Jun 16th 2011 - No Comments

Short Message Service (SMS) is the text communication service component of phone, web, or mobile communication systems, using standardized communications protocols that allow the exchange of short text messages between fixed line or mobile phone devices. SMS text messaging is the most widely used data application in the world, with Four billion active users, or 74% of all mobile phone subscribers.

The idea of adding text messaging to the services of mobile users was not frequent in many communities of mobile communication services at the beginning of the 1980s. The first action plan of the CEPT Group GSM, approved in December 1982. The SMS concept was developed in the Franco-German GSM cooperation in 1984 by Friedhelm Hillebrand and Bernard Ghillebaert. SMS was originally designed as part of GSM, but is now available on a wide range of networks, including 3G networks. However, not all text messaging systems use SMS.

As the telecom industry grows in Pakistan and all over the world. The Telecom service providers offer cheap and flexible SMS Packages. Globally, SMS is used by Four Billion users who sent Five trillion (5,000,000,000,000) messages in 2009 approximately 105 sms per person per month.

According to ITU, theglobe is currently earning 14,000 dollars every second from SMS that is, assuming an average cost of USD 0.07per SMS, in 2010 SMS traffic is generating an estimated USD 812 000 every minute or around USD 14 000every second.

 

In the year 2008/09, Pakistan had the largest text messaging growth in Asia pacific. In Pakistan, 151.6385 Billion text messaging exchanged during the year 2009, generating a revenue of Rs. 40.76 Billion. The SMS traffic is exchanged at a rate of 27 Paisa (Rs. 027) per SMS in the year 2009. All theoperators have offered very attractive SMS-bundle packages. Approximately 80% of the total SMStraffic is exchanged over bundle packages and rest 20% on flat rate of Rs.1/sms. An average bundledpackage of 700-SMS/ Month is approximately for Rs. 60. According to these two rates, the revenuefor SMS-traffic is calculated to be approximately 40.76 Billion.

Conclusion:

Round the Globe SMS has progressively become a major application to drive the development of themobile data market, and the mobile operators are streaming in quite handsome revenues varying up to30% from SMS traffic. But to sustain growth over the next few years, the operators should put moreemphasis on the social-networking applications lucrative flat rate promotions, enhanced WAPapplications, introducing innovative push, pull and commerce features, utilization of location basedservices, introduction of very liberal third party, also working where possible with popular establishedsocial-networking sites etc to drive SMS traffic.Advertising seems to have attractive potential driver for SMS traffic, and it demands the operators tosupport the end-to-end campaign management and reporting requirements of media buyers andadvertisers.Our country, despite its low income, seems to be most ready for 3G and other broadband applicationsbecause of its subscriber’s agility and adeptness in using their mobile phones for data applications.Some experts foresee the texting (160 character message) to die out with coming of 3G but Yet,unless costs of service and handsets go down, texting, up to some extent will remain the main mode of communication for many Pakistanis

Zong Introduce Mega Challenge Game

by Admin - on Jun 15th 2011 - 2 Comments

ZONG Mega Challenge”, a points based game where Players will earn points by participating in different Quizes/polls. At the end of competition, player with highest points will Win the competition. The duration of the competition is 50 days during which various small competitions will also be offered,

Competition Details: Customer will get registered in the Game by sending a message to our SMS Code 6600W066. Once the customer is registered as a player he/she will start receiving the Game challenges through SMS.Player will earn points by participating in the offered Game Challenges (Quizzes/Polls). There will be two simultaneous competitions in the Game;Daily: Highest Points earned in a Calendar dayOverall: Highest Points earned at the earned of competitionThere will be over 5,000 Challenges that will be activated over the 50 days of competition. These questions will be of varied difficulty level with different points value i.e. correct answers will increase the level of the player. The more difficult the question, the higher the points

WINNERS & PRIZES: The Game is designed in a way that we can run various small competitions within the overall competition. These small competitions will be offered in order to engage the players on daily basis.

  • Overall Competition Winner: Rs. 5 Million
  • Daily Competition Winner(s): Rs 100,000/-

Price:

  • Registration and help on 6600066 for free
  • Answering Game Challenge Questions on 6363@Rs. 10+tax per SMS

Terms and conditions:

  • Employees & their family members are not eligible for prizes.
  • In order to claim the prizes the number should be registered in the name of the winner.

Bulk SMS Assured Delivery Verses Commercial Bulk SMS Ways

by Asad Ahmad - on Jun 7th 2011 - No Comments

The bulk SMS business changed substantially more than the last two decades or so as became situation with carriers & the business defined itself by distinguishing amongst the capabilities of route & the price tag the client pays.

As result, we now stay with a situation where “you obtain what you pay for”. In before report, we talked about how bulk SMS client should decide on the route he desire to use. We looked at the distinct features and options that are offered.
In this report, we will consider appear at the difference of industrial bulk SMS routes vs. assured bulk SMS routes also recognized as premium bulk SMS.

Commercial bulk SMS routes - This type of SMS routes might incorporate all capabilities guaranteed route offers but delivery is not constantly guaranteed. Users as a result always have to check ahead of they deliver a batch. Managed sends usually contain one concept at conclude of batch sent for the management to examine no matter whether the messages ahead of there were delivered. Some of the very low-cost bulk SMS routes may well not provide delivery reviews, have fixed number sender ID and so on.

Guaranteed Bulk SMS routes - This type of SMS routes on other hand guarantee not only delivery however contains all the characteristics that consumers wish for (delivery reports, dynamic sender ID, short code originator, binary assistance and many others). That is the advantage. The only bad position is that assured bulk SMS messages routes are charged at top quality value.

Let’s suppose a client purchase one million credits from industrial bulk SMS route in which delivery is not assured at say 2 Euro cent per SMS. On sending, only 50% of messages arrive. People can send various types of SMS like – naughty SMS, love SMS and funny SMS. That means the customer reached 50% good results or delivery to mobile phones and in influence compensated four Euro cents per SMS.