Zong has become the fastest growing network of Pakistan as it has recorded 500 percent growth in terms of number of cell sites during the last three years. The Company now has 5,612 cell sites out of which a massive 4,500 have been set up since 2007.

In April 2008, Zong joined the Telecom industry in Pakistan as the smallest operator. It took ZONG two years and the fastest rollout in the history of the industry to setup a network which its competitors had taken more than a decade to set up. ZONG now covers 10,000 cities, towns and villages across Pakistan.

“It has been more than 2 years since the launch of ZONG during which we have made monumental progress,” said Salman Wassay, Head of Marketing, ZONG. “In all areas of our operations, we have upped the ante and set new benchmarks for the industry,” added Wassay.

ZONG’s reach now stretches from the mountain tops of Ishkoman in Gilgit-Baltistan to the rocky plains of Buleda in Balochistan to the midst of mega cities. It has chosen to work with some of the top companies like Ericsson, Huawei, Alcatel Lucent and ZTE to provide top-of-the-line infrastructure for its services.

ZONG has so far invested US $1.66 billion in Pakistan and has plans to further invest $300 million in 2010 which is the largest investment by any telecom operator in the current year. The Company continues to invest heavily in the construction of GSM networks, support systems and transmission facilities, and for the development of new technologies and new businesses. China Mobile – the parent company of ZONG – pursues continuous innovation in the provision of services, business, technology and management and has sustained a leadership position in the telecom industry.

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ZONG introduces its latest innovative campaign – Bijli Offer. With Bijli Offer, all new Zong prepaid customers get automatic daily lucky draw entries to win hundreds of UPS, generators, rechargeable fans and rechargeable lights every day. That’s the need of the hour and Zong felt it.

After Telenor and Zong, now Ufone is also offering free incoming MMS, which means Ufone customers can now receive MMS without any charge.

Earlier, Ufone was charging same tariff for both sending and receiving MMS.

Additionally, like before, you can send Multimedia Messages to Ufone numbers via email. Process is very simple, just attach images, songs, or anything with your email and send to ufone_number@ufonemms.com, for instance:  03335555xxx@ufonemms.com and that’s it.

Note: Make sure attachment size is considerable, 100 KB or less is good.

Tip: You can use email to MMS service to transfer files to friends n family, files of any type, even Word documents. While receiving those files (in MMS), you can save them in phone memory and then transfer to your computer for further use.

Please note that this offer has not been announced on Ufone’s website as of now.

Thanks to Sufiyan Shakil for notifying us about this.

MMS Service Comparison

• Telenor: Users can send MMS to Emails, Cannot receive Email to MMS, however MMS receiving is totally free. Zong:
• Zong: Incoming MMS are free but Zong has not started Email to MMS yet, Zong has even disabled MMS to Email to force its customers to use alternate service Zong one, which is not free.
• Ufone: Users can send MMS to Email, Email to MMS, MMS receiving is free.
• Warid: MMS receiving is not free, in some prepaid SMS packages MMS receiving is free but customer is charged from the SMS package units. Email to MMS is not available.
• Mobilink: MMS receiving is free – but GPRS charges apply if MMS size increases 7 KB.

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We are just told by highly reliable sources that one of Ufone’s data center, located in Islamabad caught fire today evening, around 5 PM. We are further told that fire has resulted into fatal destruction of infrastructure and the building.

A source heading a technical team at Ufone confirmed us that this particular data center was responsible for VAS services, including SMS and blackberry services.

Initial reports say that spark in backup battery was main cause of this fire. Latter on, for some reason fire control system didn’t go though to tackle the situation.

Customers in north region (Punjab/NWFP) may not send SMS during the recovery process, however, some VAS may damage country wide customer base.

Ufone is planning to recover the infrastructure immediately; however, it may take as long as 24 hours to initially deploy the machines from other data centers and the data recovery.

One of Ufone’s spokesperson confirmed us that Fire has damaged datacenter, however, no casualties were reported. He said that Ufone’s staff is fully equipped for recovering the things at earliest.

Warid Telecom (Pvt.) Ltd. countries most popular and favorite cellular service offers range of innovative value added services. After phenomenal success of Anonymous Chat and Zem Gup Lagao Service (777) now Warid brings ‘IM over SMS’. It’s a great service that allows Warid customers to stay in touch with the world using all popular Instant Messengers.  Warid adds ‘Strings Category’ on Music Club (444) IVR. This addition is especially made for Warid’s brand ambassadors ‘Strings’.  

Knowing that matters the most for the customers Warid introduced another exciting yet informative service ‘BMI’ its an innovative new service for weight and health conscious customers, Warid’s BMI application informs the customer of his BMI (Body Mass Index) based on his height and weight. This SMS based service informs the customer if he is overweight, underweight or healthy and provides specialized health tips for improving BMI customized according to  result.  

On Valentines Day Warid also launched Love Quizzes based on exciting questions related to customer love life. The service consists of a number of love based quizzes eg. are you in love, does he/she like me, how deep is your love etc. The service asks the customer 5 questions and according to his response to these questions, it gives him a reading on his love life based on the quiz he chose to take.   

Warid is always a step ahead in bringing the most advanced value added services to its customers.