Telenor Bluntly Adds 5 Percent Charges on all Services
Telenor has suddenly blown its customers by imposing 5 percent service charges on all scratch card loads and easy share loads. This decision came out of no where, and a new trick to hike prices for services related to Telecom. This means, if a customer loads Rs. 100 card then he will get Rs. 86 instead of what he used to get Rs. 91previously.
Pakspider, while citing a Telenor CSR, claims that these service charges are imposed to provide better services. I am forced to doubt here that other cellular companies may also follow the practice, as they will 
not remain behind in better services to their customers… (As previously seen, all companies started charging help line calls following Mobilink)
I doubt that PTA can do any favor to customers in this regards, as this is a service charge, and any company is free to impose service charges anytime they feel like (unless its not significant market player). This hike may also lead many analysts to conclude that the charm is fading away from Telecom services. However, the clear picture of ecnomical situtaion of cellular companies will come on surface in few days after PTA’s annual report will hit the surface.
The interesting point to note here is that Mr. Irfan Wahab Khan, Executive Vice President Telenor Pakistan, himself was not happy with added taxes on telecom service. He spoke about various price hikes only few days before Telenor announced this added service charges on their products.
so for Telenor Users, please note that you will have to pay Rs. 36 out of Rs. 100 for taxes and service charges…
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Telenor was thinking that there is no way to increase call rates now so they introduced service charges
سب کو پتہ ہے جتنا لوٹنا ہے اس قووم کو لوٹ لو
کوءی پوچھنے والا ہے نا ہی کوءی بولنے والا
Aww man.. heard it from a friend in Pak.. this is getting way out of hand. They make lots of money by sucking blood out of every person they can..
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Did u notice any hue and cry in newspapers/news channels about it? The @55holes sitting in print and electronic media will never write or telecast about it coz these telecoms are their custoemrs giving them millions in ads every month.
Zardari tax increase of 6% (thank God not 10%) service charges 5%, and now even shop walas deduct Rs.1 on every recharge less than 100.
In 100 you get only Rs.64 after deduction of GST, WHT, so called service charges (usually used for free services who charge a nominal fee to maintain their services, but in this case, are not they charging charging for their service when you make a call ? )
@M Afzal, Soon we may see these service charges and many new charges such as “Call Connection Charges”, “Call Termination Charges”, “SMS Delivery Charges” and even “Miss Call Charges”….!