Ufone Handset Plus SIM for Rs. 999: ProPakistani

Ufone Handset Plus SIM for Rs. 999
USF Project Inaugurated in Bahawalpur
Jazz Brings Ramadan Offer: Hourly Calls, Free SMS
PTA Recommends Guidelines for International Toll Free Numbers

Posted: 05 Aug 2011 02:32 AM PDT

Ufone has once again introduced a low-end handset for its subscribers that will cost just Rs. 999 for a handset and a Ufone SIM.

Ufone has offered handsets in range of Rs. 1000 – Rs. 2000 in the past and now here is another phone of this series.

What’s included:

Ufone’s G100 handset
One new Ufone SIM
Rs. 50 balance

Price:

Ufone G1000 Handset: Rs. 999
you can have this phone at Rs. 949 without new SIM.

Salient features:

Torch
Loud Speaker
FM Radio (works without handsfree)

Please note that this handset is network-locked i.e. it will work with Ufone SIMs only.

To read more, click: Ufone Handset Plus SIM for Rs. 999
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USF Project Inaugurated in Bahawalpur

Posted: 05 Aug 2011 01:12 AM PDT

The Prime Minister of Pakistan; Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani inaugurated Universal Service Fund’s (USF) project aimed at providing basic telecom services in Bahawalpur division’s unserved areas.

The ceremony was held at Bahawalpur circuit house on Thursday. He also inaugurated the Pakistan Software Export Boards's (PSEB) web portal (it.org.pk) launching ceremony and distributed merit certificates and medals among graduates of PSEB's internship programme for Bahalwalpur and Multan division.

Speaking on the occasion, the Prime Minister said that USF’s project in Bahawalpur manifests the determination of the government to provide basic telecom facilities to remote areas of Pakistan.

He added that when his government took charge in early 2008, there were 888 unserved mauzas in the districts of Bahawalpur, Bahawalnagar and Rahim Yar Khan. Now every village in these districts enjoys basic telecom facilities.

He hoped that PSEB and USF, under MoIT’s leadership, would continue to implement programs to strengthen Pakistan’s IT industry, and increase access to ICT technologies to all Pakistani citizens.

To mark the launch of the USF’s telecom services in Bahawalpur, the Prime Minister unveiled a plaque and made a telephone call at the remote village deep in the Cholistan desert. This project was implemented with a cost of Rs. 310 million, out of which USF contributed 248 million. The project will benefit approximately 250,000 people located in the remote areas of Bahawalpur division.

On this occasion, Federal Secretary Information Technology, Saeed Ahmed Khan, gave a detailed briefing to the Prime Minister about the Rural Telecom, Optic Fiber and Broadband programmes undertaken by Universal Service Fund (USF).

He mentioned that Ministry of Information Technology, its affiliated companies and departments are conscious of the skilled man power needs of IT Industry and have started programmes for training young IT professionals in advanced IT technologies. He assured the Prime Minister that Ministry of Information Technology would actively work towards realizing government's vision to develop young skilled professionals, for promotion of the IT industry in Pakistan.

In a statement, CEO OF Telenor- Christian Albech said, "We are proud to have become the only mobile operator to have completed a USF project that comprises a high number of solar-powered sites. We are honored to have provided connectivity to a quarter of a million unserved population of the area, and thus contributed to the socio-economic uplift of the people."

The ceremony was attended by notables of the area, political representatives and officials of Ministry of Information Technology,USF and PSEB.

Jazz Brings Ramadan Offer: Hourly Calls, Free SMS

Posted: 04 Aug 2011 11:16 PM PDT

In connection with Ramadan, Mobilink has offered this package for it's prepaid jazz customers, which gets you a whole hour FREE talk-time after one minute and 100 SMS FREE every day after sending the first SMS (on that day).

In simple words, your all on-net calls will become Rs. 2 per hour plus tax
You will be given 100 free SMS if you send at least one SMS on that particular day

The offer will be available for all prepaid packages (available on Jazz & Jazz Jazba) except for subscribers using Jazz 24 Ghanta offer, Jazz LNO and Jazba Gup Shup offer.

This offer will be available till August 28, 2011.

Tariff:

One hour FREE after One minute*

100 SMS FREE after One SMS

* One minute will be charged at Rs. 2 / min

Charges:

Charges

One Time Subscription Charges: Rs. 20
Subscription Validity: Till August, 2011
Base rate (On-net Voice): Rs. 2 / Hour
Base rate (Off-net Voice): Rs. 2 / Min
Base rate On-net SMS: Rs. 1 / SMS
Base rate Off-net SMS: Rs. 1.50 / SMS
SMS Offer: 100 Free SMS (All-net) after 1 charged SMS for Rs. 1.00 / day

How to Subscribe:

Subscriber will have to send a blank SMS to short code 8288 to subscribe to the offer

One-time charge of Rs. 20+tax applies for sending SMS to 8288

In order to unsubscribe the offer customer will have to send an SMS to short code 8288 and type "unsub"

To avail the SMS offer customer will have to dial *106*1#

On subscription to short code 8288 following message will be sent to subscriber

Dear Customer! Welcome to Ramadan Offer. Now make calls to Mobilink at Rs. 2+tax per call. To get 100 free SMS on all networks, please dial *106*1#

The subscription will remain valid till 28th August 2011.

Terms:

All on-net calls will be charged at Rs. 2+tax/hour

All off-net calls will be charged at Rs. 2+tax/min

IDD tariff will be that of Jazz One

No other voice tariff plan or voice offer can be availed while subscriber is on this plan

The daily charges of this SMS offer is Rs. 1+ tax and will be recursive

The price of first charged SMS is Rs. 1 for on-net and Rs. 1.5 for off-net.

The offer will be available for all prepaid packages except for subscribers using Jazz 24 Ghanta offer, Jazz LNO, Jazba Gup Shup offer and Jazz Easy subscribers.

Jazz 24 Ghanta, Jazz LNO and Jazba Gup Shup offer subscribers will have to unsubscribe from the offer and then send an SMS to short code 8288 to subscribe the offer.
There will be no voice and hybrid bundle, Ghanta offer or any other voice offer through feature available to these subscribers.
There will be only one SMS offer mentioned below that would be available on this package.

Customers availing the offer will be moved backed to the package on which they were present before opting the offer

PTA Recommends Guidelines for International Toll Free Numbers

Posted: 04 Aug 2011 10:20 PM PDT

Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has issued its recommendation to set Rs 5,000 charges of annual International Toll Free number for local service providers in the new mechanism for international freephone service (IFS).

The authority in its consultation papers have stated various modes and options to operate toll free numbers in line with its thriving demands and global market practices and mechanism.

Accordingly, the operator terminating the calls would pay the call charges to the operator originating the call whereas the local service provider would be held responsible in case of any malpractice.

The service providers are made mandatory to map the International Toll Free number according to the customer requirements incorporated in the Allocation Letter issued by PTA.

The National Service Provider is liable to have an agreement with the International Operator in order to manage the service and costs of the international Toll Free Numbers.

The interconnect agreement will be mutually agreed in accordance with the Code of Commercial practice while Reverse Charging mechanism to be followed, PTA suggested.

A separate Toll Free number could be assigned to a subscriber for each country so the caller can dial the Toll Free number according to his country in order to make the call free of cost, PTA recommends.

The call for the International Toll Free number to be routed to the country of destination through the local Service providers who are suggested to translate the dialed International Toll Free number into the number format as specified by the International Service provider.

This will normally be in the form of a special routing number which will be used by the service provider to identify the called customer as well as the origin of the call. This routing number should be kept confidential.

The structure of the routing number will be bilaterally agreed. The National Service Provider to route the International Toll Free call after translation of the dialed International Toll Free number to an appropriate International Gateway Exchange.

An agreement between the local service provider (i.e. local FLL/ WLL/ Mobile Operator) and the International operator should be devised in order to ensure the payments to the International operator for providing a toll free call to an international caller.

You can download the paper by clicking this link (PDF File – 757 KB)