Zong 100 Pay 100 Offer – 100% Free Balance on Every Recharge

Zong has announced this mega treat for its customers, named 100 pay 100. Now Zong customers can get 100 percent of free balance on every 100 plus recharge.

For instance, if you recharge Rs. 100, your new account balance will become Rs. 200 (before tax deductions).

With the 100 pai 100 offer Zong customers will be able to receive a 100% free balance on every load of a 100+.

• The balance will have an expiration date of three days i.e. the free balance can be used within three days.
• The balance can be used to make on net and off net phone calls only with off net calls restricted to 20% of the total bonus balance
• Extra incentive: customers that load a balance of more than a Rs1000 will receive a cash bonus of a Rs 100 which may be used for other services besides phone calls. This bonus is on top of the 1000 balance that the customer will receive.

Please note:

• The bonus money will automatically added into your account once there is a new recharge – you don’t need to subscribe for anything.
• The bonus that will be added for a recharge of 150 is a 100, bonus is added with multiples of a 100 i.e. if you load a balance of 200 you will receive 200 extra balance.
• For every multiple of 100 the customer will receive a balance of a 100 and an extra cash balance of 100 for reaching a 1000. Hence a recharge of a 1500 will receive 1500 extra balance and additional 100 cash.
• 20% of the balance can be used to make offnet calls while 80% can be used to make onnet calls

Ufone again brings Lowest International Call Rates

Ufone brings special International call rates on the occasion of Eid-ul-Adha, Now make calls for only 45 paisa per 30 seconds to the UK (landline only), USA (landline and mobile), Canada (landline and mobile), Norway (landline only) and Sweden (landline only), without any daily charges. This offer is valid on calls made 24 hours a day to the mentioned destinations.

This promotion was also introduced in September this year, but this time with more countries in the list.

How to activate?

To activate this offer simply dial *27#

Note:

• One time subscription charges are Rs.10+ tax
• For prepaid this offer will be available on UWON Plus, UWON, Tension Free Special, Public Demand, Public Demad 60 Paisa, Josh, Uth, Uth Non Stop Offer, Uth Full Time Mufta Offer, Ufone Ghanta, Ufone Super Ghanta, Prepay Life, Life Plus, Ucircle Life Plus, 3 Minute, & Ufone 5/15 Packages
• For postpaid this offer will be available for U50, U250, U550, U1000, U1600, U5000, U49, U249, U549, U999, U1499, U1999, U3999 packages
• If a subscribed customer changes his/her package plan, the IDD offer will be deactivated and the customer will have to subscribe again to avail the offer.
• For IDD bucket customers, the offer rates will be applicable after the consumption of IDD bucket minutes .
• NTS numbers for UK (fixed) shall be charged at Rs 15/Min+Tax.
• This is a Limited time offer.

Mobilink to Charge Rs. 2 for Every Helpline Cal

Mobilink has announced that every call made to its helpline will be charged at Rs. 2 plus tax (Rs. 2.42 including taxes) from November 15th, 2010.

It merits mentioning here that Mobilink had introduced this idea of charging helpline calls back in August 2008, which was then followed by all other cellular companies. You may know that Pakistan is the only country in the world where helpline calls are being charged.

Mobilink had then imposed 50 paisas on every helpline call and said that these charges are imposed to improve quality of customer support.

We are not going to comment on how much the quality service quality has improved after the imposition of service charges, instead we would recommend you to read this guide if you want to decrease wait time during helpline calls.

Expect other operators to follow this, if PTA, the regulator, remains quite.

Following ad appeared in today’s papers:

Ufone Launches Blackberry CURVE 9300

Ufone has become the first player to launch Blackberry CURVE 9300.

Priced at Rs. 30,000 Curve 9300 handset works both 2G & 3G networks with a touch sensitive optical trackpad, dedicated music keys, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS and a 2 megapixel camera.

This dynamic phone takes fun as seriously as it takes work with its dedicated media keys, trackpad navigation, 3G network readiness and social networking apps ready for Facebook, Linked In and Twitter.

It’s packed with all the trademark BlackBerry features and exclusive Ufone services available for BlackBerry customers wherever they are.

Special Offer:

Buy a BlackBerry from Ufone before December 15, 2010, and get FREE BlackBerry services for 1 month!

Get Bonus from Warid on Daily Usage

Warid is offering you bonus money on daily and monthly usage. Promotion, named as “Warid Bol Anmol Program”, is very simple – just use Rs. 5 or over in a day and get the bonus money credited into your account.

Mechanism:

You will be rewarded with an immediate bonus balance for any activity on the Warid network! All you have to do is spend as low as Rs. 5 a day on the network and you will be rewarded with an immediate bonus balance with our “Bonus Rozana Program”.

If your usage crosses Rs. 10 a day and you’ll be automatically entitled to the “Bonus Mahana Program”.

You can avail “Bonus Rozana” and “Bonus Mahana” simultaneously.

Bonus  Details:

Please Note:

• You don’t need to subscribe for anything to get the bonus money.
• How to get Daily Bonus: “Bonus Rozana” is an offer for prepaid subscribers that gives them instant bonus. On a daily usage of more than Rs. 5, you will be awarded with an instant bonus amount in your account. Details of bonus money is given above.
• You can receive an instant bonus every day if you spend more than Rs. 5 on the network.
• How to Get Monthly Bonus: “Bonus Mahana” offer gives you bonus balance according to your monthly usage. To be entitled to the “Bonus Mahana” offer, subscribers have to spend Rs. 10 each day after which they will receive Rs. 5 as a reward on the 5th day. The reward amount will increase after usage for 15 days and you can win up to Rs. 36 every month.
• These offers are available to all Warid prepaid users.
• Bonus can be used for on-net calls, on-net & off-net SMS or talky message. However, it cannot be used for GPRS, MMS or international calls.
• There are no subscription charges to get the bonus money.
• You will receive your bonus balance daily, if eligible. A notice will be sent to you via Flash message.
• All on-net calls, on-net & off-net SMS or talky messages will be charged from available bonus.  Once the bonus balance is consumed, your main account balance will be used.
  For example, if you have bonus worth Rs. 7 and you make a call to a Warid number that costs Rs. 10, your bonus of Rs. 7 will be consumed first and then the remaining Rs. 3 will be deducted from your main account.
• You can check your bonus balance by dialing *200#.
• You can’t share the bonus – there’s no expiry for the bonus money.

SMS Bombers, What They are? and How they Work?

The phenomenon of SMS Bomber is getting popular these days. There are many mobile subscribers who are terrified by the bombardment of thousands of text messages on their mobile phones from unknown numbers.

By defination, SMS bomber is an application which sends unlimited text messages to a mobile phone number, leaving the phone subscriber with no option but to switch off his/her phone. Deleting those messages later on is added headache for the users.

The interesting thing about SMS Bomber is that it doesn’t require name/phone number or anything to send messages, instead it only requires target’s phone number – a very secure way to annoy anyone anonymously.

Very same thing happened to me today. I got some 100 plus text messages, which actually annoyed me to the level of investigating the root cause and the working of SMS bombers.

After googling, I found out that SMS Bomber is basically a window application with very simple interface. This application takes a mobile number as input and uses web services to send text messages to the specified number.

When self tested, and intensively analyzed the network traffic, we found that there were number of http POST requests sent to a particular IP address with my number.

How SMS Bomber Works (Our Findings):

• There are services offered by cellular companies on their websites to get your mobile numbers registered, subscribe for new services etc. These webpages take mobile number as input – in return to which they send text messages (containing PIN codes/ passwords/ confirmations etc) to mobile numbers
• SMS Bomber takes a mobile number as input
• Then posts this mobile number to any of cellular companies’ web pages
• Cellular company sends relative SMS to that mobile number
• SMS Bomber repeats this process several hundred times, resulting several hundred text messages delivered to the victim cell number

Tip for Cellular Companies (to Avoid SMS Bombers):

• Consider using CAPTCHA
• Consider implementing strict rules for sending repetitive SMS on same number
• Restricting http POST request can be helpful too

If webpages and services are configured properly, cellular companies can completely get rid of such annoying application.

Jazz Introduces ‘Chota Bundle Offer

After Jazz All in One Offer, Mobilink today unveiled its chota Bundle Offer for those customers will less communication needs.

With Jazz Chota Bundle you get 7 minutes and 30 SMSfor a day, only for Rs. 5. The minutes will be for on-net only and SMS will be for all local mobile networks.

Daily Charges:

Rs. 5 plus tax

Tariff:

• 19.5%  FED apply on the above mentioned prices
• Minutes are for calls to Mobilink only and SMS are for all networks across Pakistan
• Offer will be available on all Jazz Packages except Jazz 24 Ghanta
• This is a limited time offer

How to Subscribe:

Enter *101*1*06# on mobile screen and press send

Other USSD Commands:

• Information     *101*3*06#
• Balance Inquiry     *101*2#

Terms & Conditions:

• In case of multiple subscriptions, the count of minutes and SMS will be added together and validity will be greater of the two subscriptions e.g. if a customer buys a bundle on 11:00 Oct 27, 2010 consumes 2 minutes and 10 SMS the same day (left with 5 minutes and 20 SMS available till 23:59 Oct 28, 2010) and buys another bundle next day 14:00 Oct 28, 2010, he will have 12 minutes and 50 SMS available till 23:59 Oct 29,2010
• In case of purchase of a bundle before the expiry of previous bundle, the validities will be greater of the two but the destination of the minutes will be as per the last purchased bundle i.e. if a subscriber has bought all-in-one bundle and before the consumption / expiry of the bundle he has bought this on-net bundle, all the minutes will be converted to on-net; and vice versa.
• Weekly bundle and Newly launched “All in One” bundle are the other bundles to enjoy.