Zong Introduces Video Cards Service

For the first time in Pakistan, Zong invents a new style for greeting your loved ones. Now you can send Video Cards to your family members, friends or anyone you want. What you need to do is to create an account against your Zong mobile number at http://61.5.156.102/zongservice/ and then you can send video cards to anyone you want.

But I don’t know why Zong always leaves some bug in their system. When I tried to register an account, I discovered that registration process works fine with Internet Explorer but doesn’t with Firefox. Anyways, might be they discover this bug later and fix it.

Forgetting what the bug is at the moment, you just need to register, log in your account, select a card and enter receiver’s number. Service charges will be deducted from your account balance or will be billed in case you are a postpaid customer.

Charges

A one time charge of Rs.10 + tax applies for sending each card.

Mobilink’s Death is Near Now, Zong Showed Highest Growth!

Pakistan Telecommunication Authority(PTA) has released a new chart showing the total number of subscribers different telecommunication companies had during the month of July 2008 and then during the month of August 2008. The following table quotes those statistics exactly:-

It’s not shocking to see Mobilink losing a significant number of subscribers in just one month. The services and packages offered by Mobilink don’t attract the attention of many people specially teenagers. On the other hand, Zong acquired 357,034 customers in just one month thus showing the highest growth among telecommunication companies between the month of July 2008 and August 2008. It’s also interesting to see Telenor losing around 13 thousand subscribers. On the other hand, Ufone showed second highest growth with 232,437 more customers and Warid scored third growth wise with an increase of 170,260 customers in its lists.

Zong Voice Message Service

Zong has just launched voice message service named Kehdo SMS. Instead of typing a message, now you just need to record a voice message and it will be delivered to the recipient. The package will cost more but will definitely gives you the ability to tell other person whatever you can say within a minute. So, save your hands from tiring by using them all the day long writing text messages.

The service is automatically enabled on all Zong numbers free of charge. You will be only charged when you send a voice message. To send Kehdo SMS, press * then enter recipient mobile number and dial it. Once you have recorded the voice message and sent it, the receiver will get a confirmation SMS. A single message can be up to 60 seconds (1 minute). You may listen to new Kehdo SMS by dialing *0* and to old Kehdo SMS by dialing *1*. All new and old messages remains stored for 48 hours.

You can send Kehdo SMS to all Zong numbers, other operators subscribers if they have the facility to receive voice messages and to a number of International destinations including Canada, Finland, France, Germany, India, Italy, Mexico, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, USA, Brazil, Chile, China, Czech Republic, Egypt, UAE, Argentina, South Africa and Turkey.

Charges (exclusive of tax)

Zong offers 20,000 SMS for just Rs.149

Now say hi, hello, cya and bye with Zong’s latest SMS Package. Zong offers you 20,000 SMS for every 15 days subscription. So, the package almost offers you unlimited messages every 15 days for a normal user.

The package will charge you a one time subscription of Rs.149 (exclusive of tax) and the subscription will be valid for 15 days. If you re-subscribe to the service again before the previous service has expired, your previous service message will be brought forward and will be added to 20,000 SMS count of your latest subscription.

This package is only useful for you if you really send more than 10,000 SMS every 15 days because Telenor offers you 5,000 SMS for 15 days at just Rs.70 and even if you use this subscription twice in 15 days it will cost you just Rs.140 which is still cheaper than this Rs.149 service. So, if you are so much addicted to SMS that you send 10,000+ SMS every 15 days then go for Zong or otherwise stick to Telenor.

Activation

Send ‘sub’ in an SMS to 701.

Charges

One time 15 days subscription charge of Rs.149 (exclusive of tax).

ZONG launched GPRS on per hour basis

For the first time in Pakistan, ZONG has launched internet on per hour rates. All other companies including Mobilink, Warid, Telenor and Ufone are providing mobile internet on the amount of data consumed. After rocking market with its services and amazing call rates, ZONG has launched its hourly based internet package.

Where all other companies charge you approximately Rs.15 (exclusive of tax) per MB, ZONG gives you unlimited internet usage for one hour in the same price. Mobile internet was not this economical and easy. With the per MB based packages, you always keep on worrying whether to open this website or not. Questions like whether a website will consume more bandwidth or not always keep on wondering in your mind. ZONG says it’s now time to step out of the bits and bytes charging domains and experience the joy of plain and real time based charging.

The service is a new exciting chapter in the MMS/EDGE history of telecommunication companies. Where others may charge you Rs.100 or even more according to your bandwidth consumption, ZONG will charge you with just Rs.15 excluding tax. This is also a point for other companies to review their policies and launch any such package to keep their subscribers intact.

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