Country Manager, EyeBlaster & eTechsol, Resigns: ProPakistani

Country Manager, EyeBlaster & eTechsol, Resigns
PTCL EVO Wins Best Consumer Choice Award
Djuice Introduces Background Music Service
NADRA Kiosk Not Punching Utility Bills, Thousands of Subscribers Suffer [LTE]
NayaTel Ranked Number 2 in Pakistan 25
Ufone to Launch Uth Records to Record/Broadcast Young Musicians
Jazz Brings Apni Call: Receiving Party to Pay for Call
Cellular Tariffs: Our Culture of Criticism and Discontentment

Country Manager, EyeBlaster & eTechsol, Resigns

Posted: 20 Jan 2011 10:22 AM PST

Country Manager, EyeBlaster & eTechsol, Resigns is a post from: ProPakistani

Dr. Syed Anwar Ali Shah - eTechsol, Country Manager Sales And Marketing.

We have just heard that Dr. Syed Anwar Ali Shah, Country Manager for Eyeblaster and eTechsol Pakistan and a key player in the company, has resigned today, told us sources close to the situation.

Dr. Shah is considered as pioneers for digital media advertising in the country. He played a pivotal role in taking the online advertising industry to where it is now.

He did many industry firsts including rich media interactive ads, dynamic ads, advanced media features and more.

He solely managed online campaigns of various MNCs including Ufone, PTCL, wi-tribe, Telenor, Zong, Wateen, Warid, Dalda, Murree Brewery, Seasons Canola, Pizza Hut, Interflow, Evernew, Mcom, Midas, Orient McCann , Channel 7, UNDP and others.

Mr. Shah's resignation came at a time when Digital Media is at its ever best level in the country. More and more companies are turning their focus to web advertising. After cellular companies, FMCGs, real-estate, Banks and all kind of industries have started investing in online media. Estimates suggest that a total spend of around USD 5 million is used for digital advertising in the country.

An analyst from digital media, while commenting on Dr. Shah's resignation, said that this move is a blow for Eyeblaster and eTechsol, especially in current competitive market of Pakistani digital space. "Competition companies like Symmetry, TNBT, Strategic Alliance and Bramerz are likely to give the hard time to Eyeblaster and eTechsol after his resignation", he added.

We are yet to ascertain the next company of Dr. Shah, however, we are told that this move is primarily aimed for career growth.

Dr. Shah has a doctorate degree in Strategic Business Planning.

PTCL EVO Wins Best Consumer Choice Award

Posted: 20 Jan 2011 04:09 AM PST

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Pakistan Telecommunication Company LTD (PTCL) has won Best Consumer Choice Award 2010 for its product "EVO", claims a statement issued by the company today.

statement says that Pakistani consumers have chosen EVO as a recipient of, Consumers Choice Award in the category of Best Wireless Broadband.

Federal Minister Makhdoom Amin Faheem presented the shield to SEVP South Abdullah Youseff in Karachi.

The Consumers Choice Award is celebrating its 6^th successful year in the country.

PTCL President and CEO – Walid Irshaid, while acknowledging this achievement, stated:

PTCL understands the changing dynamics of the telecommunication sector and is working towards foreseeing our customer's needs and fulfilling them.

The selection of EVO in the category of Best Wireless Broadband in Consumer Choice Award for '2010' is an acknowledgement of that.

EVO 3G Wireless Broadband is Pakistan's fastest on the double wireless internet offering its customers superior, venerable, advanced and a cutting edge 3G internet experience with its unprecedented speed.

It has revolutionized the three simple steps just plug in-click-connect of wireless connectivity for our valued customers. Pakistan is the first country in the world of telecommunication to commercially launch EVO 3G Nitro, the fastest wireless broadband with seamless roaming having speed up to 9.3mbps.

This award is a testament to our team's focus and determined efforts to better understand the needs of the ever evolving customer and connecting with them.

We are continuously striving to make a positive impact on the lives of our customers, and PTCL team is constantly designing, developing and introducing services and products that offer an improved and enhanced customer experience, PTCL President and CEO – Walid Irshaid

Djuice Introduces Background Music Service

Posted: 20 Jan 2011 03:52 AM PST

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BGM Djuice Introduces Background Music Service Following Ufone, exactly after one year, Djuice is now offering background music service for its customers.

With this service, subscribers can play music and sound effects in the background of voice calls.

You can Play your favorite song in the background, or play sound effects like kiss sound (yes, that's true with Telenor), boisterous laughter, flushing sound and many more during your BGM call.

How to use the service:

Dial 666 and Press 1 to make the BGM call or Press 2 to listen / edit songs in your existing BGM playlist
BGM playlist consists of 10 songs, amongst which 3 are set as default songs that can replaced; additionally now you can also use default sound effects like boo-ing someone on hot key 8 and burping sounds effect on hot key # during the BGM call. Sound effects are also replaceable.
If you don’t wish to add any new songs or sound effects to your existing BGM playlist than you can directly Dial B-Party number with prefix 666 e.g.66603xxxxxxxxx

Charges:

IVR Call Charges: Rs. 5 + Tax per Minute
Content Purchase Charges : Rs. 5 + Tax per Content
Content Renewal Charges: Rs. 5 + Tax per Content

Terms:

Calls can only be made to Mobile Operators in Pakistan
Customer can Press 0 to discontinue the existing call and dial another number
Validity of the Content (Song or Theme) is for 30 Days – Upon 30 days there will be Auto-Renewal unless opted out

NADRA Kiosk Not Punching Utility Bills, Thousands of Subscribers Suffer [LTE]

Posted: 20 Jan 2011 02:01 AM PST

NADRA Kiosk Not Punching Utility Bills, Thousands of Subscribers Suffer [LTE] is a post from: ProPakistani

Dear ProPakistani,

I am writing this to register my complaint and protest against NADRA Kiosks, which are to help subscribers pay their utility bills with ease.

Unlike what NADRA claims, my first and probably the last experience with NADRA Kiosks went horrible. My paid amount didn't reach to the SUI Northern Gas and I was billed again with extra charges for the service that I had paid already for.

This happened as NADRA didn't punch my bill and transaction was not carried away.

I am sure this is not only me. There must be thousands of other customers who would be bearing the same brunt. I have heard WAPDA linemen telling subscribers to not to pay bills at NADRA Kiosks as they don't punch bills at time, or even after time.

I am attaching scanned copies of my bills hereby for your reference:

Picture 516 150x150 NADRA Kiosk Not Punching Utility Bills, Thousands of Subscribers Suffer [LTE]

Picture 517 150x150 NADRA Kiosk Not Punching Utility Bills, Thousands of Subscribers Suffer [LTE]

Picture 518 150x150 NADRA Kiosk Not Punching Utility Bills, Thousands of Subscribers Suffer [LTE]

I heave heard that various NADRA e-sahulat centers have ran away with millions of rupees in their pockets, which were submitted by poor gas and electricity subscribers, which never reached to the companies. All these subscribers had to pay their utility bills again.

I wonder, if this country has any rule to implement? and if there is anyone who could listen to the pleas of poor public? Is there anyone who can question NADRA on this?

A concerned citizen,

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NayaTel Ranked Number 2 in Pakistan 25

Posted: 19 Jan 2011 11:31 PM PST

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nayatel NayaTel Ranked Number 2 in Pakistan 25 Nayatel has been ranked at number two among top fast growing companies in Pakistan, called Pakistan 25.

This ranking was done by Allworld Network, released today and available at http://www.allworldlive.com/asia-500/winners/2010-pakistan-25

AllWorld Network was established in 2007 by Deirdre M. Coyle, Anne Habiby and Professor Michael E. Porter of the Harvard Business School, USA and they've done such ranking in Pakistan for the first time.

A total of 100 companies from Pakistan in various sectors applied for this ranking and 25 were selected by the panel of experts. Only the fastest growing private companies make the list, and each company is credentialed by AllWorld based on strenuous international standards.

Established in 2004 and now with over 500 employees, Nayatel is the number one telecom and IT company in this ranking with 1076 percent growth rate. Company launched South Asia’s first fiber to the home (FTTH)/fiber to the user (FTTU) network in Islamabad in 2006.

This state of the art fiber wiring now serves 6,000 home and company users, and is key to providing the country's capital city with a robust telecom infrastructure.

Sofizar, i2c, Corvit Networks, Miltilynx and Rozee also made to the Pakistan 25 list.

Ufone to Launch Uth Records to Record/Broadcast Young Musicians

Posted: 19 Jan 2011 09:44 PM PST

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uth recods Ufone to Launch Uth Records to Record/Broadcast Young Musicians Ufone is secretly working on a music production house, as unveiled by KoolMuzone.

With "Uth Records", apparently the name of the project, Ufone is likely to provide opportunities of recording and broadcasting music for the young musicians of the country.

KoolMuzine also spotted a YouTube video, which further explains the concept of Uth Records. According to the leaked video, Uth Records will provide a platform to the youth of Pakistan to break into Music Industry. If you a singer, guitarist or anything related to Music Industry, Uth Record is your place to hit the score.

The concept of Uth Records is likely to be in following manner:

Finding talent
Recording talent
Showcasing such efforts on the TV show itself in order to provide the stage itself for younger lesser known artists.

Ufone has already registered a domain name for the purpose, with its ownership, while the registrar company is Nexus. here is domain URL: http://www.uthrecords.com.pk/

Uth records website is up, meaning that you can already submit your demo work by registering through this link.

You may also send in the demos by posting at the following address:

Uth Records
Ufone Marketing Office
IE, Ali Plaza, Jinnah Avenue,
Blue Area
Islamabad

Demos must be in MP3 or WMA format if audio and FLV if video. Please note that 7th Feb is the last date for the submission of demos

This is the first time, that a youth brand of any cellular company has taken this step for the music junkies.

Watch the video below for more details

This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Jazz Brings Apni Call: Receiving Party to Pay for Call

Posted: 19 Jan 2011 09:40 PM PST

Jazz Brings Apni Call: Receiving Party to Pay for Call is a post from: ProPakistani

Just like we anticipated 2 weeks ago, Mobilink Jazz today announced Jazz Apni Call service that offers its customers to get connected even if they are out of balance or have insufficient balance to call.

With Jazz Apni Call, the call will be paid by the person who is receiving the call rather than the one who is making the call.

Just to add, Jazz's Apni Call service is a replica of Zong's Yari Call and Ufone's Collect Call service.

How to Use Jazz Apni Call:

To use the service, Dial *131* before the desired number e.g. *131*03001234567#, If the other party accepts the users Jazz Apni Call their call will be connected right away and the charges will be given by the receiving party.

Charges:

Monthly subscription: Rs. 9.99+Tax/Month
Call will be charged as per recipient's package plan

How to Subscribe:

To subscribe this service you can dial *131*1#

Un-subscription:

To unsubscribe from the service user will dial *131*2# from his/her mobile screen

Important Commands:

*131# To receive a generic information that tells the customer how to subscribe
*131*<030XXXXXXXX># To make "Jazz Apni Call"
*132*0*2*030XXXXXXXX# To add a number in Black List
*132*0*3*030XXXXXXXX# To delete the number from Black List
*132*0*1# To view the Black List
*132*1*2*030XXXXXXXX# To add a number in a White List
*132*1*3*030XXXXXXXX# To delete the number from White List
*132*1*1# To view the White List

Important Points:

Party B (recipient) will be intimated through IVR message before receiving the call as "you will be charged for this call, press 1 if you want to receive the call."
White list is the list of those numbers from whom the subscribers can receive the reverse call (Apni Call) without any confirmation.
Black List is the list of numbers through which the recipient can block reverse call (Apni Call) from an unwanted numbers.
Customer will be able to add maximum 20 numbers in white or black list at one point in time.
This offer is available for Mobilink pre-paid customers on on-net calls only.

Terms & Conditions

Standard Government taxes apply
This Service is available to calls from Mobilink to Mobilink only. Party A & B both should be Mobilink subscribers
Call will be charged to B party as per their base package plan (If connected)
All Prepaid users can initiate Jazz Apni call request (as A party)
All Post-Paid & Prepaid users can receive Jazz Apni call request (as B party)
Subscribers on international roaming will not be able to initiate Jazz Apni call request
If B party is on international roaming then Jazz Apni Call request will not be sent to him
Prepaid subs will be able to initiate Jazz Apni Call request even if they have zero balance in their account
White & Black list cannot be maintained simultaneously
This is a limited time offer

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Above Post has input from Mahar Shoaib, Thanks for your help Mahar

Cellular Tariffs: Our Culture of Criticism and Discontentment

Posted: 19 Jan 2011 08:15 PM PST

Cellular Tariffs: Our Culture of Criticism and Discontentment is a post from: ProPakistani

This is a Guest Post By Asad Ur Rehman, who wrote this article as general mobile phone user. Professionally, Asad is a specialist in Human Resource Management.

Ever since Pakistan came into being every thing got costly by every passing day. Inflation has risen much but there is only one product or service which even in the era of inflation and recession is getting cheaper and affordable with the time is Cellular Service.

But even then we people are not contented on it and want more and more.

Tariffs for Calls, SMS and GPRS/EDGE have come down from Rupees to Paisas but still we are not happy. Every now and then a company announces some new package for subscribers but still we don't feel good.

We are having the cheapest cellular services in the world but still we don't fell satisfied. The thing is that this discontentment and criticism has become a part of our life. Positive criticism is good but criticizing on every other thing is not good.

Just a brief overview of how much cellular services have gone cheaper in last 4-5 years is as below.

Incoming calls are now free anywhere in Pakistan which were previously charged while in roaming.
SMSs which were charged at 1.50 Rs-2 Rs/Sms are now not more than 1 paisa/Sms.
Outgoing Calls which were previously being charged at 6-7 Rs/minute are now charged at around 1-1.50 Rs/minute. Moreover on nominal charges one can talk for hours and make free calls whole day.
GPRS which was charged as per usage is now being charged per hour or different GPRS & MMS buckets are available at cheapest possible rates.
Many more things like new connection charges, replacement charges, roaming charges have been slashed and many more innovative services have been introduced frequently by every cellular company.

But we try to find a negative point in every service. Some days back Mobilink introduced Jazz Jazba. Every one continued to show its negative picture but no one talked about its reduced international SMS charges, its nominal charges to call on FnF whole day whole night and more. Same goes with Ufone when they introduced Uth package, every one talked about its daily 1 Rs deduction but only some of them applauded. Same goes with M9, Djuice and many more.

One thing which we should not forget is that all these companies are private companies and they will do business as long as are having profits and hence they have to find new ways and services to earn it.

Also, if mobile companies are having profits – we shouldn't forget that they are giving us something in return. And moreover no one is forcing any one to use a service. It's by our very own choice.

Pinched by price war, the day they will be in loss they will pack up and move to somewhere else hence putting lot of professionals and families in trouble.