By Mehwish Khan · Thursday, Mar 4, 2010 21 Comments
At a time when revolution in telecom is bringing the world together by providing instant communication access over long distances, Indian cellular companies are discouraging its subscribers from making calls to Pakistan.
Reportedly, since Jan 21, 2010 an SMS is being received on the mobile phones to exercise extra care while calling anyone in Pakistan.
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By Aamir Attaa · Friday, Jan 15, 2010 0 Comments
Time of India has reported that fraudulent calls are being originated from Pakistan that appears to be involved in lottery scams, victimizing Indian mobile phone users. Though newspaper admits that technology can be used to change the phone number.
Newspaper further claims that allegedly these callers from Pakistan have access to subscribers’ database...
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By Aamir Attaa · Thursday, Jan 14, 2010 6 Comments
Zong offers unlimited on-night call between 12 AM to 7 AM, at a fixed rental of Rs. 9.99 plus tax per day. So now make on-net calls, without worrying about number of hours – and call duration. There is no restriction of FnF numbers, as you can make calls to all Zong numbers.
How to Subscribe:
Send sub to “913” or dial “913” and choose...
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By Aamir Attaa · Tuesday, Oct 6, 2009 0 Comments
There has been rumor amongst mobile phone subscribers that cellular companies are going to impose 10 Paisa charges on incoming calls from October 10th, 2009; it is to inform everyone that there is no such thing at the moment in the industry.
Officials from cellular companies have denied any such rumors and said there are no chances of such charges for...
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By Aamir Attaa · Wednesday, Sep 2, 2009 0 Comments
Telenor has introduced this new limited time package (for 17 days), that offers inexpensive calls and even free calls at daily rental of Rs. 8.37 per day.
Telenor has done it again – i am equally surprised this time too as they have not mentioned Daily Rental of Rs. 8.37 (including tax) on advert. At the same time, they mentioned the activation...
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By Valentine Aaqil Mahmood · Tuesday, Aug 18, 2009 34 Comments
Telenor has also introduced call block service – similar to Ufone’s call block service but I will never use these kind of services when I can block calls and text messages free using my phone’s built in features – or you can install call and SMS blocking software on your handsets.
However let me tell you the feature details of ...
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By Aamir Attaa · Monday, Mar 23, 2009 16 Comments
The word FREE fascinates every one, and when it is tagged with calls to America and Canada, making the line “Free Calls to USA and Canada”, i am sure it is going to catch many eyes.
http://callingamerica.com offers web-based (meaning that you don’t need to download dialer) free unlimited calls to USA and Canada. This ad supported model allows...
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By Aamir Attaa · Tuesday, Feb 10, 2009 10 Comments
The issue of unknown callers that disturb cell phone users is not new, but the momentum has reached its highest limit in recent months. Lowering tariffs are allowing the culprits to call and tease people with in-expensive rates and more comfort. I am not going into details on how people call unknown numbers and tease them (especially when they find...
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By Aamir Attaa · Monday, Feb 2, 2009 0 Comments
One of its kind service launched by Ufone, named as ‘Collect Call’ is causing un-wanted balance deduction from customers’ account, who do not want to pay for receiving calls – but they lose balance due to ignorance of service (rules).
It may be recalled that through Collect Call Service, if party A calls Party B with 11 prior to actual number...
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By Aamir Attaa · Thursday, Nov 20, 2008 75 Comments
Ufone offers Ghata Package, with somewhat similar rates of its Ramada Offer, with some additional rates and daily subscription fee as well. With Ghanta Package, Ufone customers can call one hour at Rs. 7.25 per on Ufone to Ufone calls between 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM. Customers will have to pay daily subscription fee of Rs. 4.84 per day.
Due to increased...
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By Aamir Attaa · Monday, Nov 17, 2008 0 Comments
In an effort to provide quick services (this is what Ufone claims), Ufone has started charging its postpaid customers too, for all calls made to helpline. Earlier on these helpline calls were charged for prepaid customers only, while postpaid customers were given due respect.
However, in a latest development, postpaid customers will be charged Rs. 0.50...
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By Aamir Attaa · Friday, Nov 14, 2008 0 Comments
Telenor has introduced a service called “Telenor SecureAll” to backup mobile phone data including contacts, SMS and media files on web. Customers availing this service will be able to backup and restore their data stored on mobile phones, anytime – they can delete all data from their phones, remotely (in case mobile phone is lost), furthermore,...
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By Aamir Attaa · Saturday, Nov 8, 2008 0 Comments
Ufone has recently started a service, which is prompted when a Ufone number is dialed and is found switched off. For example, if you call a Ufone Number, and it is switched off, the automated voice will say
“App kay matlooba number say jawab mousool nahi ho raha – Agar app Ufone kay customer hain aur Awaz SMS Baijhna chahtay hain tu 99 mila kar...
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By Aamir Attaa · Saturday, Nov 1, 2008 0 Comments
We have been notified by our readers (self tested as well) that there is a server crash on Zong’s end – hence Zong users are making free calls to any number, yes international numbers too, for free…!
We have notified Zong’s administration about this. Hopefully issue will get resolved soon.
Meanwhile you can enjoy free calls…...
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By Aamir Attaa · Monday, Oct 6, 2008 0 Comments
We have seen Mobilink’s declining sales in previous months, which maybe didn’t jolt experts’ mind due to their size and weight of customers. It’s very obvious that a company with subscribers’ base of 31 million can not attain growth rate of even 1 percent or so, also given that cellular subscribers’ teledensity has hit 56 percent mark.
But...
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