Mobilink Introduces Bill Payment Service: ProPakistani

Mobilink Introduces Bill Payment Service
Glow Offers 100 SMS for 50 Paisas
How to Secure Mobile Phones?
Warid Wins Punjab Polo Cup
Get Live Cricket Updates with LG’s Chacha Cricket Desktop App
Call for E-Recruitment in Government Sector
Jazz Offers International Call Offer for World Cup

Mobilink Introduces Bill Payment Service

Posted: 21 Feb 2011 01:38 AM PST

Mobilink Introduces Bill Payment Service is a post from: ProPakistani

Mobilink Bill Payment Mobilink Introduces Bill Payment Service Mobilink today announced its Bill Payment Service, which will allow customers to pay their bills at Mobilink Service Centers, franchises or Mobilink utility bill Payment retailor.

A company statement said:

Mobilink has now added Utility Bill Payments solution to its Mobile Financial Services Portfolio enabling all Pakistanis regardless of cellular ownership to make utility bill payments.

With the largest portfolio of utility companies across Pakistan on board with NADRA e-Sahulat, Mobilink is the only cellular operator currently offering bill payments solution for all forms of utilities in collaboration with NADRA e-Sahulat. Mobilink aims to expand this panel, already the largest offered by any Telco operator, in coming months.

As of today, bill payments for 18 utilities, including electricity, gas, water and Telephone can be made at all Mobilink business centers, franchises and selected Mobilink shops. Service powered by NADRA's e-Sahulat is open to customers of all networks and even those who do not own a cellular connection.

The solution does not require any registration or any additional fee associated with it at any point. Moreover, all retailer transactions occur in real time, are secured by a 4 digit MPIN and generate an instant SMS receipt sent to both user and retailer in case of mobile ownership.

"The mobile phone has emerged from a mere communication tool with a boundless range of opportunities. Customers today want convenient ways to engage with and manage their daily financial lives. Our bill payments empower customers to make utility bill payments anytime, anywhere through a reliable and secure channel. As the trusted cellular services provider for over 30 million Pakistanis, we feel that adding payment capabilities to our retailer network is a natural step in establishing Mobilink's position in the mobile financial services arena," said Bilal Munir Sheikh, Vice President Marketing, Mobilink at the launch of the Utility Bill Payments Solution.

This is not the first time Mobilink has stepped into Utility bill payment solutions, previously, they had partnered with NADRA for a similar service. Mobilink Genie used to offer same kind of service as well.

However, with this new solution – powered by NADRA’s e-sahulat, Mobilink has formally involved their core-support network, i.e. customer care centers and franchises for bill payments.

How to Pay Bill with Mobilink:

Go to any of your nearest Mobilink Customer Care Center, Mobilink Franchise or Mobilink Utility Bill Payment Retailer along with your bill
Present your bill and cash to the representative of Mobilink CC center, Franchise or Retailer.
Give your Mobile Number to the representative, [its important to give him mobile number as you are going to receive a confirmation SMS from Mobilink]
The representative of Mobilink CC Center, Franchise or Retailer will pay your bill through his system, and you will receive a confirmation SMS of successful payment of your bill
Your bill will be stamped and signed by representative of Mobilink CC Center, Franchise or Retailer
This service is absolutely free of charge
Every time you pay your bill, please ensure that your bill is stamped and signed by the representative of Mobilink CC Center, Franchise or Retailer, and you receive confirmation SMS from Mobilink

No charges:

This service is free of charge. Nothing will be charged to customer over and above the actual bill amount. The solution does not require any registration or any additional fee associated with it at any point.

Important Note:

In case of Mobile customer, the customer must ensure that he/she has received the Bill payment Confirmation SMS from 771.
Service is Free – don't give any service charges of fee for bill payment.

Supported Networks:

Through Mobilink Utility Bill Payment Service, you can pay the bills of following utility companies:

Mobilink Bill Payment 1 Mobilink Introduces Bill Payment Service

Service Disclaimer from Mobilink:

Mobilink has posted a disclaimer on its website, which says that company won't be responsible for any loss. Read them on:

By using Mobilink Utility Bill Payment Service, the customer agrees to the following:

In case of Mobile customer, the customer must ensure that he/she has received the Bill payment Confirmation SMS from 771.
That the customer must ensure that after successful bill payment, his/her bill is stamped and Transaction ID and Retailer Number is mentioned on the stamp.
That the representative of Mobilink CC Center, Franchise or Retailer is not authorized to receive any fees over and above the actual bill amount.
That the customer understands and agrees that no claims for arrears or otherwise will be entertained or considered by Pakistan Mobile Communications Limited (Mobilink) without a valid transaction ID.
That there are no undertakings, warranties, terms of agreement between the parties or guarantees by Mobilink as to the quality, standard and function of the Service and the direct and indirect consequences arising from the use of the Service.
That there is no assurance that the Service is free from defects, errors, or omissions, or is accurate or not flawed in any way or fit for any particular purpose, or will operate without interruption, delay or will be available or will not be suspended, cancelled or terminated.
That Mobilink shall not be liable for any consequences which arise as a result of the use of the Service by you including but not limited to loss of profit, loss of capital, loss of savings, loss of data and information, business, revenue, contracts, reputation or goodwill or any other expenses, costs and damages whether direct or indirect and whether reasonably foreseeable or not or in any manner whatsoever.
That all the risk, liability and choice of using the Services is with you and you shall not seek to claim any sums from Mobilink.
Mobilink may amend these terms and conditions whenever it deems necessary and Mobilink may amend/change the services offered herein or discontinue the services in whole or in part.

Glow Offers 100 SMS for 50 Paisas

Posted: 21 Feb 2011 12:14 AM PST

Glow Offers 100 SMS for 50 Paisas is a post from: ProPakistani

With the revamp of its website, Warid Glow is offering its customers a variety of new SMS bundles, meeting the needs of all type of customers.

The best one is said to be 100 SMS per day for 50 paisas, which happens to be the most in-expensive daily SMS bundle, in terms of price. This SMS package will match over 80 percent of Glow customers.

For those who need more SMS juice can subscribe to 250 SMS per day for Rs. 2.99 per day.

Complete details are mentioned below

SMS Packages:

Send Unlimited SMS to any number, any network in Pakistan.

100 SMS @ 50 Paisas / day – To activate, SMS Glow<space>100 to 7777
250 SMS @ Rs. 2.99/day – To activate, SMS Glow<space>250 to 7777or call 321
700 SMS @ Rs. 6.99/week – To activate, SMS Glow<space>700 to 7777or call 321
1000 SMS@ Rs. 7.99/week -To activate, SMS Glow<space>1000 to 7777or call 321

To deactivate, write SMS<space>off to 7777 or call 321

Note: All messages sent between 9PM till 11PM are charged normally i.e 25 paisas plus tax per SMS [Thanks to cellphone user for notifying]

How to Secure Mobile Phones?

Posted: 20 Feb 2011 08:45 PM PST

How to Secure Mobile Phones? is a post from: ProPakistani

Mobile phones are now-a-days capable of performing significantly beyond their very own basic concept of handling calls and messaging.

Being called as just mobile/cell-phones initially; evolving into smart-phones and treading over the course of time have now been developed into super-phones.

If your device is having diverse capabilities in performance then chances are that you won't be thinking of having, for example, a dedicated camera for high quality photo & video-graphy or carrying a laptop all the time to check e-mails or communicate with your friends.

Mobile devices and more importantly the user data are of critical nature for the owner and in the unfortunate event of losing the device; privacy of user data can be at stake if no security is enabled.

While, it's been discussed in the past that what measures can be taken if mobile phone is stolen/snatched and probability of getting back a stolen/snatched mobile phones is practically zero, the purpose here is to present different security functionalities being offered by manufacturers or application developers.

SIM Card & Phone Lock Codes:

There's no device, no matter low-or-high end, that doesn't offer basic security functions of protecting SIM card and mobile phone with PIN (Personal Identification Number) and lock-code respectively.

PIN and phone lock codes can be changed from default (0000 for PIN & 12345/0000 for lock code) to values that can easily be recalled by the user.

Additionally, PIN check request can be set to "ON" and device protection through lock-code can be enabled. PIN and lock code settings are enough to provide a two step security process whenever mobile phone is re-started.

In most of the cases when mobile phone is stolen or snatched, the very first action taken by the culprit is to switch-off the phone so it won't be possible for the person to get the phone work on next start-up. Enabling phone lock code ensures more security than anything else, let alone the fact that snatcher/thief will definitely try to start the phone with his own SIM card.

Moreover, some mobile phones have the option to set a time delay (in minutes) after which phone gets locked automatically. This option can be helpful for those who don't want to get into the hassle of unlocking the device every time they want to use it since phone will be locked only after considerable amount of inactivity time.

Nonetheless, even if mobile phone is locked user can still receive phone calls without the need of unlocking it.

Mobile Tracker:

Mobile tracker feature can mostly be found in Samsung and LG mobiles. Mobile Tracker is one of the best built-in solutions that a manufacturer can provide; in case of mobile phone theft.

If tracker settings are enabled and someone tries to use the phone with different SIM card (than what has been used to set-up the tracker settings) an SMS is sent to pre-defined recipients containing short message, sender's name and IMEI number of the device (see image below). Importantly, the message is received from the new SIM card that has been used and sender will have no knowledge about the message being sent nor will the message be saved in outbox/sent items of the stolen device.

clip image0042 How to Secure Mobile Phones?

Low-end mobile phones (e.g. Samsung E1105) can have only two recipients in trackers settings while Sender info (My Samsung in above instance) can be set to any text string to recognize the device by the recipient.

Also, recipient's contact number must be provided in international format (+92xxxxxxxxxx) and a password is required to setup the settings (default being 12345).

Mobile Tracker feature with enhanced functionality is also present in Samsung Galaxy S Smart-Phone

(Settings → Location and security → Set mobile tracker)

And they've announced that Galaxy S II will be having more focus on security functions as well.

A free online account is required to be registered at Samsung Dive's Website and this account will be required to enable tracker settings in mobile phone. Users can remotely work with the phone provided that it's connected to the data network and can also wipe the data through website (depends on region), however, basic functionality of mobile tracker will still be present like low-end mobiles.

Remote Phone Locking in Nokia Symbian Devices:

Nokia Symbian devices (S60v3, Symbian^1 & Symbian^3) come with a useful built-in functionality of remotely locking the phone through SMS

(Settings → Phone → Phone Management → Security → Phone and SIM Card).

This feature proves to be handy when you're away from your phone or, in case of theft, other person is still using the handset with your SIM card. This settings can be enabled by providing device lock code (default is 12345) and remote-locking-message (minimum length 5 characters).

Whenever, an SMS is received at the target device containing remote-locking-message (case sensitive), phone automatically detects and locks the device and upon successful lock operation, a feedback is also sent.

Remote-lock feature enabled with phone lock code (Lock If SIM Card Changed) ensures that phone won't be useable by other person, albeit, it doesn't guarantee that stolen or lost phone will be recovered. However, remote-locking-message should never be more than 8 characters in length because remote-locking-message is also set as password of memory card and you won't be able to access your memory card on any other device since it won't accept any password of length more than 8 characters (formatting will be required resulting in loss of data).

Find My Phone in Windows Phone 7:

Find My Phone

(Start → App → Settings → Find My Phone)

is a free service by Microsoft which can be exploited to remotely work with your windows phone 7 devices.

Any Windows Live account can be used to activate this service on the device and remote commands can be sent via text messages from http://windowsphone.live.com. This service can be used to send commands for different operations like ringing, locking of phone and displaying a message on screen, showing the location of device on a map and erasing all the user data. Details can be found here.

MobileMe For iOS4 Devices:

All iOS 4.2 devices (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch) can use MobileMe application to obtain remote locking, ringing, mapping and remote wiping functionality.

However, the catch here's that MobileMe requires paid subscription to work after 60 days of trial period.

However, fortunately if you own device-of-the-year (Apple iPhone 4) then you can use Find My iPhone application which is free of cost and part of MobileMe service.

After setting up preferences in application, target phone can be remotely worked with from http://me.com or any other iOS device compatible with Find My iPhone application. Anyways, this service isn't available for all countries.

BlackBerry Protect by RIM:

After the success of BlackBerry Messenger, RIM is all set to introduce a new software application for BlackBerry platform i.e. BlackBerry Protect.

BlackBerry Protect project was started last year and beta testing has also been conducted but final release of the software is yet to be seen. This application aims to provide similar sort of features offered by Windows Phone 7 and iOS devices. If you own a BlackBerry Smart-Phone then you may register for updates and RIM will let you know once it's available for download.

Important Things to Note:

PIN & phone lock code security are important but forgetting these codes may result in blocking of SIM (PUK & PIN2 required) and mobile phone (re-flashing won't reset the lock code). So it's always advised to make a note of changed lock codes to avoid any problems.
It's moral responsibility of device seller to reset all device lock codes and turn-off tracker/remote-lock setting before selling mobile device. Buyer of mobile device is also advised to obtain the lock code from seller and restore mobile device to its factory settings which'd delete all settings including tracker/remote-lock (device lock code won't be affected)
As always, never forget to make a backup of your important data on periodic basis.

Warid Wins Punjab Polo Cup

Posted: 20 Feb 2011 08:44 PM PST

Warid Wins Punjab Polo Cup is a post from: ProPakistani

Warid Polo Team won by 6.5 to 4 by Al Khan in Punjab Polo Tournament played here on Sunday at Lahore Polo Club.

Match started with a half goal advantage to Warid polo team due to their low handicap.

First chukker one goal struck by Manual Crespo and second by Ahmed Zubair. Second chukker two goals struck by Manual Crespo, one field goal and second by a forty yards penalty short.

Warid Polo team lead and the score remained 4.5 to 0 in Second chukkar. In third chukker, three goals scored by Al Khan, goals were scored by Hamza and two by Fernando Quinto.

Score at the end of third chukker remained 3 to 4.5. Fourth chukker, Warid team scored two more goals by Manual Crespo and secured 3rd position in the Punjab polo tournament.

Get Live Cricket Updates with LG’s Chacha Cricket Desktop App

Posted: 20 Feb 2011 08:43 PM PST

Get Live Cricket Updates with LG’s Chacha Cricket Desktop App is a post from: ProPakistani

saa Get Live Cricket Updates with LGs Chacha Cricket Desktop App The world cup is on, and so are the cricket lovers who want to stay updated with live happenings.

In case, you don't have access to TV screens around you, here's a desktop application that will keep you posted with live updates of Cricket World Cup Matches.

Brought to you by LG Electronics, this desktop application is called "LG's Cacha Cricket" aimed at bring you live scores of cricket matches during the world cup.

This application has a very nice interface and contain different slogans which are played on start of the app and whenever a player hits FOUR, SIX or a WICKET FALLS.

The application is named after a Pakistani Cricket Fan Haji Abdul Jalil who is commonly known as the Chacha e Cricket.

This application is available for free download at the following link

http://www.facebook.com/LGElectronicsPakistan?sk=app_111356045607162

Call for E-Recruitment in Government Sector

Posted: 20 Feb 2011 08:40 PM PST

Call for E-Recruitment in Government Sector is a post from: ProPakistani

E-recruitment is the process of personnel recruitment using electronic resources, particularly the internet. Companies and recruitment agents have shifted much of their recruitment process online to enhance the speed and efficiency of employing.

Using database technologies, online job advertising boards and search engines, employers can now fill posts in a fraction of the time, which was previously impossible.

In Pakistan most of the private sector organizations have switched to E-recruitment but government sector, which is a major source of jobs, is still using the old conventional methods for recruitment. This traditional recruitment process is not only time consuming and tiring but it turns out to be costly – both for the company and for the applicant.

Due to this hassle and effort, sometimes potential applicants do not apply for vacancies available in government sector. As a result the particular department or organization has to re-advertise the post to fill in the vacancy.

Moreover, short listing through traditional recruitment is not easy as Recruiter has to go through each and every resume and application, some of which are totally irrelevant As a result, at times, potential applicants are not shortlisted due to work pressure and hassle.

Though Government is boasting much about e-commerce and IT related steps but in case of E-recruitment no serious steps have been taken yet. Therefore it is the need of the time that Government should also consider switching to E-recruitment.

By the way, I am not suggesting to completely switch the recruitment channel, as there would be many with no access to internet, but e-recruitment can be a huge plus if implemented as an available option for applying for government jobs.

Following are some benefits of E-Recruitment.

Cost effective

Advertising a job vacancy on company's official website costs nothing. Not only this, advertisement made through online hiring websites are less expensive than traditional methods.

Online recruitment is quick

Anyone can apply anytime from anywhere.

Online recruitment gives a better chance of success

Due to increased ease, more visibility and larger reach, the success rate for getting your best match increases notably.

So Government Sector should move to E-Recruitment but shouldn't abolish the traditional recruiting methods too as till now most of the people in Pakistan don't have access to internet.

Jazz Offers International Call Offer for World Cup

Posted: 20 Feb 2011 08:35 PM PST

Jazz Offers International Call Offer for World Cup is a post from: ProPakistani

Mobilink Jazz is offering discounted International call rates to all World Cup destinations!

Tariff:

Mobilink IDD Jazz Offers International Call Offer for World Cup

Offer Details

Subscribers will get 50% discount for calling to Bangladesh (L+M), India (L+M), Sri Lanka (L+M). Daily subscription of Rs 2+tax per country.

The offer is available on all Jazz packages
The daily subscription will be recursive
Offer available 24 hours a day
Premium Rate numbers of Bangladesh, India and Sri Lanka will not be entertained through this promotion

Subscription Mechanism:

Customers will subscribe to the offer through USSD

Following USSD will be used to subscribe to the respective countries:

*104*1*880*03# for Bangladesh
*104*1*91*03# for India
*104*1*94*03# for Sri Lanka

Short Code (112) for USSD strings information:

Customer can get the above mentioned USSD strings by sending a text message to 112
SMS to 112 is not charged

Un-subscription Mechanism:

Customers will unsubscribe from the offer through USSD

Following USSD will be used to unsubscribe from the respective countries:

*104*4*880*03# for Bangladesh
*104*4*91*03# for India
*104*4*94*03# for Sri Lanka

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