Mobilink Hands over Mobile Library to JAQ Trust Students

Mobilink Foundation has handed over a Mobile Library to the students of Pehli Kiran School System (PKSS) of Jahangir Akhtar Qureshi (JAQ) trust as a means to encouraging extracurricular education among the school children.

The Mobile Library will carry books across 8 campuses in Islamabad and the adjourning areas for more than 1400 students to read.

The key to the Mobile Library was handed over in a ceremony held at the Mobilink head office in Islamabad. The ceremony was attended by Mobilink Senior Management, Mobilink Torchbearers, JAQ Trust board of Trustees and school children of PKSS.

Omar Manzur, Head of Corporate Communication Mobilink speaking at the ceremony said, ‘Our partnership with JAQ trust is part of Mobilink Foundation’s broader commitment to provide education opportunities for the under-privileged children of Pakistan. We hope that the Mobilink Mobile Library will go a long way in developing children’s interest in book reading and understanding the benefits of education.’

The Mobile Library has been set up in a hatch-back vehicle to carry story books, activity books, fairy tales and general knowledge books for children.

The Mobile Library will travel between the PKSS Islamabad campuses as a means to providing them books during their ‘reading periods’ each week.

The vehicle will also serve as a means for travel for PKSS teachers and JAQ trust volunteer staff for holding interactive sessions using the Mobile Library.

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Pakistan Tops 2.9 Million Broadband Subscribers, EvDO Outruns DSL Subscriptions!

Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has said that total broadband base in Pakistan crossed 2.9 million subscriptions at the end of August 2013.

A total of 101,707 new broadband connections were issued during the month of August, with EvDO technology – Thanks to PTCL’s offering of 50 Discount on EVO — grabbing the 93 percent of new acquisitions or 93,506 sales in a month.

With such massive sales in one month, for the first time in the history of the country, broadband subscribers using EvDO technology have crossed the DSL subscriptions to become the largest used technology for broadband services in the country.

EvDO now has over 41 percent of market-share in terms of broadband subscribers, with DSL technology following at 38 percent market-share. This trend hints that 3G wireless broadband, when launched, will be greatly welcomed in Pakistan.

WiMAX technology, worst hit due to rise in EvDO customers, saw a decline of 2,623 customers during August.

DSL technology added 10,307 new customers during the reported month.

More details in below graphs:

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Ufone Brings “Thor - The Dark World” movie to Pakistan

Ufone brings yet another exciting news for movie fanatics across the country by bringing “Thor – The Dark World” to Pakistani Cinema in association with Pakistan’s most exciting youth brand,Uth Pack.

The movie is premiering in all major 2D and 3D theaters across Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad on the 20^th of November while the official nationwide release is on the 22^nd of November.

Uth pack is also offering a chance to win free tickets to the movie for its customers by simply loading a balance of Rs. 1000. These passes are valid across the three cities namely, Rawalpindi, Lahore and Karachi.

Thor – The Dark World, sequel to the 2011 blockbuster of Thor, is an American superhero film featuring the Marvel comic character, Thor played by Chris Hemsworth. Thor has topped the film list for the weekend, since its launch last week, according to Forbes and is doing well,bagging $479mn already across the world. It is a story of a leader who has to combat an enemy, as old as time, who aims to throw the universe into darkness.

Mr. Akbar Khan, Chief Marketing Officer, Ufone commented on this initiative, saying “Youth forms the most vibrant and dynamic segment of the country’s population. Ufone aims to delight this segment by introducing new and exciting offers that associate them with the brand. Uth Pack has always been a step ahead in providing the best entertainment opportunities for the youth of this nation, this movie and other such initiatives are an example of that.”

Ufone, the most popular youth telecom brand of Pakistan, has associated itself with a lot of other youth programs. Uth Pack, itself, has so far launched movies namely Iron Man 3, World War Z and now Thor. The aim has always been to provide solutions for the subscribers that not only make a statement but also provide entertainment and create positive energy.

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Warid Offers Free Data Usage Alerts for International Roaming Subscribers

Have you been roaming abroad, using data and have been shocked by your bill upon returning home? Warid brings an end to your bill-shock worries and offers for the very 1st time in Pakistan, real-time based,Warid Data Usage Alerts for all postpaid International roamers!

Facility is said to be aimed at helping such users who keep their data services active during International roaming. Now they will be able to get timely alerts so they can keep a check on their data usage and can roam around without worrying about their bill.

The postpaid customers roaming abroad will be informed of their data usage through an SMS after every 4 hours. Data roamers can now manage their monthly bill through these usage incurred alerts. For example, after every four hours subscribers will get a message saying “Dear Customer, Last 4 hours DATA usage for your number is —KB. Smartphone users can stop Data Services/Auto Sync options anytime to avoid over billing.” 

Postpaid customers using data roaming can avail this service free of cost.

To unsubscribe from this service customers simply have to dial 321 to talk to Warid’s Customer Service Representative and unsubscribe this service.

Warid offers International Roaming network that connects to some 264 International partners in 152 countries for 2G roaming followed by 192 partners in 115 countries for GPRS/Data roaming and there is pre-activated roaming offered for Warid Prepaid that is available in major countries across the globe.

Warid also offers in-flight roaming with Aero-mobile and On-Air that allows subscribers to use their mobile phones during flights and Marine time roaming that facilitates sea travellers.

Bringing consumer convenience to its next level, Warid continues to stand-out and strives for excellence in connecting people beyond borders.

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Phone Backup App Launches by Warid

With smartphones playacting a lot of and a lot of tasks of our daily lives, the info hold on on these devices is expensive, every now and then a lot of valuable than the other stuff.

However, because of its hand-held nature, smartphones will simply be lost (read stolen). this case is more worrying in countries like Asian country wherever street crime rates area unit relatively higher as compared to developed markets.

Not solely this however smartphones will every now and then become victim of physical harm or computer code malfunctioning .This is wherever backing from information becomes essential.

Thankfully, Warid brings AN exclusive mechanical man primarily based app with the innate quality of backing up your Contacts list, decision Log and SMS messages.

Additionally, the app helps you to stay your personal and sensitive information saved.

After putting in the App, users area unit needed to sign-up for AN account by getting into their mobile variety (03xxxxxxxxx), a password, and activating it exploitation the pin code received through SMS message.

The App is neatly coded with clean design on top of a user-friendly environment. It packs various easy to understand options available which includes,

• Add Contact,
• Browse Contact(s),
• Synchronize Contacts,
• Call Log,
• SMS Restore, and
• Account Info & Settings.

Users have the authority to manage and schedule automated Backups on Daily, weekly or monthly basis on their specified time. It also grants its users to enable/disable the feature to backup call logs or SMS messages, these options are available under “Account Info & Settings”.

With the user-friendly environment and conceivable options, anyone, even with inadequate acquaintance of smartphones can easily Backup their Contacts, and with call log backup feature a user can back-up every number he has dialled, every call he received or even missed

Your data is backed-up over cloud, which can be accessed directly from the web using http://mobilebackup.waridtel.com, anywhere, anytime.

After reviewing it thoroughly and going through every available option I must say that I am quite impressed with its clean design and easy-to-understand options. I’d recommend it to anyone who would want to keep their data backed-up and secure at the same time, not only on the phone, but on the Cloud too.

You can download app from here!

Here are few screenshots:

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Warid Becomes the Most Socially Dedicated Brand on Facebook

Warid Telecom has been ranked as number one socially devoted brand on Facebook during October 2013, said a report published by Social Bakers.

With its around 635K fans and growing, Warid has retained its top slot for socially devoted brands on Facebook since July 2013.

Average response rate for queries posted on Warid’s Facebook page remained 83 percent during October, which once touched 91 percent mark in July 2013.

The average response rate is calculated by number of questions brands answered minus question that went unanswered on its Facebook wall.

Moreover, response time by Warid against queries posted by customers on its Facebook page stood incredibly well at 267 minutes during the month of October 2013.

Not surprisingly, telecom brands have scored better amongst all sectors.

Facebook, lately, has become a hub for customers to raise voice over general and individual issues. Brands, at the same time, are taking such platforms more seriously in order to make sure that customers are reached and satisfied in person.

Not to forget, Lars Christian Iuel, CEO of Telenor Pakistan recently interacted one-on-one with customers over Facebook and Twitter.

These new channels are allowing companies to interact with masses on personal level. And this is exactly where Warid has topped the charts in local brands.

Below is the month-wise ranking of socially devoted brands on Facebook:

October 2013

September 2013

August 2013

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PTA to Block All Unregistered IPs to Curb Grey Telephony

With an aim to eliminate grey traffic, Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) today announced that it will block all unregistered IPs carrying voice telephony.

A statement issued by the regulator said that all IP addresses which are not registered with PTA – and carrying voice packets — would be considered as black listed IPs and shall be blocked with immediate effect.

IP addresses of authorized telecom users like Call Centers, Video Conferencing etc. are being whitelisted in the monitoring system. It is therefore advised to all the companies authorized to bring international incoming calls to Pakistan to get their IP addresses whitelisted by contacting PTA immediately.

White listing of IP addresses by the authorized users/companies would help them use the services without any interruption.

If IP addresses are not reported to PTA for whitelisting as per the prescribed procedure, they would be blocked without any further notice. Moreover, legal action would be initiated against the companies involved in use of IP addresses for termination of any sort of international incoming calls as per provision of laws of Pakistan.

For any clarification or assistance for whitelisting of IP addresses for legal voice / video services, 

Director (Vigilance) of PTA can be contacted at abatin@pta.gov.pk.

It merits mentioning here that PTA recently deployed Grey Traffic Monitoring System which keeps a check on International Internet Protocol (IP) bandwidth to detect and block illegal International incoming voice calls.

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