Mobile Evolution

Pakistan’s First Prepaid Reward Program
Now everyone on Zong is a winner with Pakistan’s first Prepaid reward program – simply keep your phone on and get rewarded !

Through Keep Phone On reward program, ZONG subscribers will automatically win prizes just for keeping their phone on. This program is designed to gain the most out of a consumer based reward programs which sidelines the usual practice of all operators of offering Sim lagao/Jagao campaigns. With KPO, ZONG rewards its customers for staying with ZONG – the longer they stay with ZONG, the more rewards and prizes they receive.

Reward details are as below :

Free SMS:
Customers will get free SMS based on the number of days they keep their phone on !

For example if a customer keeps his phone on for 5 days (generates a rev. Activity each day); on day 6 the subscriber will receive a SMS that he/she has won 10 free SMS and should call on 710 to redeem them, . These free SMS are valid for 2 days. If the subscriber keeps their phone on after day 5, for 5 more days until day 10,on day 11, they will receive a further 15 free SMS (redemption process will remain same). The grid below shows the free SMS received by 1 subscriber depending on how many days their phone is kept on.

Example : If you keep your phone on for 31 days, they will have received a TOTAL of 150 free SMS from ZONG – 10 free SMS on day 6, 15 free SMS on day 11, 20 free SMS on day 16, 25 free SMS on day 21, 30 free SMS on day 26 and 50 free SMS on day 31. Therefore if you keep your phone continuously on for 120 days, the total number of free SMS you will receive from ZONG in this period is 865 SMS.

Please note:
•All incentives are given automatically on redemption through 710 – you will receive a SMS as you are eligible.
•This reward is time based.
Free Min & SMS
In addition, if you spend more than or equal to Rs 210 in the last 30 days, you will receive additional free SMS and free ONnet minutes. The grid for this is given below:

Example:
For example, if you spend Rs 210 in the last 30 days from the beginning of this offer, you will receive 5 free on net minutes and 20 free SMS, valid for 3 days. In the next 30 days, if you spend Rs 300, you will receive 20 free on net minutes and 30 free SMS, valid for 3 days. You will receive a notification via SMS, all you need to do is call 710 to redeem your free minutes and SMS
Lucky Draw:15 days from the start of the campaign, there will be lucky draw Subscribers who have kept phone on for 15 days continuously will be eligible for participation. Also, for every day they keep their phone on after the 15th day they will get that many extra entries in the lucky draw .

There will be 3 types of lucky draws held the details of which are shown below. For each type there will be qualifying number of days (15) that the phone must be kept continuously “ON” and for every subsequent day the phone is kept on a new entry will be awarded in the lucky draw.

The table below shows the qualifying number of days and prizes.

Lucky Draw Mehran
•All ZONG prepaid subscribers who have kept their phone on continuously for more than 15 days are automatically eligible for this draw. This draw will be done monthly through an IT program and winners will be notified by SMS to visit their nearest CSC for further details.
•Tax is deducted on prize @ 20% of value

Lucky Draw Bikes
•All ZONG prepaid subscribers who have kept their phone on continuously for more than 15 days are automatically eligible for this draw. This draw will be done weekly through an IT program and winners will be notified by SMS to visit their nearest CSC for further details.
•Tax is deducted on prize @ 20% of value

Lucky Draw Cash
Any ZONG prepaid subscriber who has kept their phone on continuously for 15 days is automatically entered into this lucky draw. This lucky draw for cash prizes will be held daily after 15 days from the start of the campaign. There are daily cash prizes for Rs 1000 and Rs 500. The cash prizes will be handed over to the winning subscribers through the CSCs. Each winner will be sent an SMS, they will have to go to their nearest CSC, with winner notification SMS, original CNIC, MSISDN. Please note:

•Tax is deducted on cash prize money @ 20% so winners of Rs 1000 will receive Rs 800 cash in hand and winners of Rs 500 prize will receive Rs 400 cash in hand
•For cash prizes, subscribers who generate more than Rs 50 in 3 days, get an extra entry into the cash lucky draw

Terms & condition
•Each winner will be notified via SMS and all prizes must be collected from Customer Services Centres within 5 days of receiving SMS notification (this applies to cash, bike and car prizes) otherwise it will be void
•Prizes will only be given to winners whose names and CNIC matches the name and CNIC on the winning number.
•The decision of company on all awards will be final.
•Validity of Free SMS for first 30 days will be 2 days, above 30 days is 3 days
•Validity of free SMS/minutes given on basis of monthly usage will be 3 days each.
•This is a limited time offer.

ISLAMABAD: The increases in Approved Settlement Rates (ASR) are made on the basis that the level of ASR directly affects the contributions towards USF for proliferation of telecom services and the same was increased to help the Government to expand the USF projects in remote areas. Number of projects has lately been completed by USF Fund in Sindh and Balochistan. Five Optical Fibre projects costing Rs. 4.5 Billion and Twelve Broadband projects costing Rs. 6.35 Billion have already been awarded. Owing to this, the broadband proliferation has increased manifold in Pakistan showing a growth of 150%, thus putting Pakistan amongst the top ten countries in the world in terms of growth. The broadband subscribers have reached approximately 0.8 Million. Therefore as reported in certain section of the media, government has not suffered a loss of Rs 30 billion on account of collection of Access Promotion Contribution (APC).

On account of APC for USF, PTA was collecting Rs.12 million/month in January, 2005, Rs.85 million in October, 2007, Rs.86 million in May, 2008 while Rs.1083 million/month and Rs.1564 million/month in Feb, 2009 and July, 2009 respectively. In fact, as data shows, changes in the APC and ASR over the period of time have helped in increase of revenues to the USF Fund.

Historically, when ASR was at its minimum level from October 2007-April 2008, the average monthly minutes were 499 Million per month. In May 2008, when the ASR was increased to 10 cents/minute, there was no negative impact on the traffic pattern due to the installation of equipment to curb grey traffic. From May 2008 onwards, average incoming traffic remained at 500 plus Million minutes per month, resulting in an increase in APC for USF contribution of US$ 14 Million per month (May 2008-Jan 2009) which further increased to US$ 22 Million per month from February 2009 to June 2009 when PTA increased the ASR to 12.5 cents/minute. Since the reported traffic never reached to the level of one billion minutes per month even when ASR was at its minimum level, the assumption that the legal traffic fell below 400 Million minutes per month, thereby resulting in a loss of Rs 30 Billion, as being projected in the media, is not based on facts.

Another reason for increase in ASR is that the earlier reductions in ASR were not passed on to the end users by foreign operators who continued to charge high tariffs from users calling Pakistan from abroad and the same was conveyed to PTA through complaints from Pakistani expatriates. The Telecom Act 1996 and APC Regulations empower PTA to revise ASR/APC which PTA carries out after the due consultation with telecom operators through a fair and transparent method. And the decision of PTA is appealable in the courts as well.

PTA conducted 28 successful raids, on grey traffickers, since March 2009, which included small and big gateway operators. Number of persons including foreigners were also apprehended. In the campaign against illegal telephony 20,092 mobile SIMs were blocked. Furthermore, licenses of Local Loop operators and LDI operators were suspended, while LDI operators were also fined on this account. Thousands of operators/equipments involved into grey traffic are being blocked every month. PTA has saved Rs.1.5 billion (US$ 18 Million per month) so far by taking action against the illegal operators and after installation of latest equipment in April 2008 at PTA.

It is pertinent to mention here that PTA has established a dedicated Vigilance Cell of experts whose expertise are well recognized in monitoring such illegal telecom traffic with the help of state-of-the-art equipment to curb the grey traffic. International regulators have shown their interest to acquire similar system to curb grey traffic in their respective jurisdictions.

Telecom market is coming up with different valued added services these days as the customer demand is evolving due to fast and furious daily life in which people don’t get time for recreation like going out with family and friends rather prefer sitting at their premises and enjoying some readily available services. This part of world being the diehards of Cricket game, do get time for cricket whether they have to go to watch it live or staying at home watching it on TV which is not possible these days due to massive load shedding in the country.

PTCL does have solution to their problems!!!

On the occasion of Asia Cup starting on June 15, 2010, PTCL proudly announces yet another Cricket info service through which PSTN and VFONE subscribers of PTCL will be able to listen to live commentary of cricket matches just by dialing a four digit access code 1216 and listening to the live commentary.

Package Tariff:
•Each call will be charged @ Rs 1 / Minute (Exclusive of tax)
•No service subscription required.

Frequently Asked Questions:

Q1. Who can avail Cricket Info Service?
Ans: All the existing and new PTCL customers either of PSTN or WLL, who are Cricket Diehards/affectees of electricity load shedding.

Q2 . How do I access this service? What are the service charges?
Ans: You just have to dial 1216 and listen to the live commentary of ongoing match. The service would be charged Rs 1+ Tax/ Minute.

Q3. I am unable to access both the service?Ans: Call 1236 helpline and register a complaint.

Q4. Will I be charged for cricket info service in case there is no live match available?
Ans: Yes.

Q5. . Under which the usage charges of cricket info and call me back services will be visible?
Ans: In the monthly bill, you can see the usage charges under the head “PRS/Voice Portal Charges”