Ufone 4G gets global recognition for its superior 4G services

Karachi: Pakistani telecom company, Ufone 4G has been recognized as the superior 4G services provider in Pakistan by Opensignal, a leading global analytics company specializing in quantifying the users’ mobile network experience. Ufone 4G outdid other operators in several indicators of the ‘Overall Experience’ under the 4G subset as per the global analyst’s insight’s report ‘Pakistan Mobile Network Experience Report August 2022’, which also names the company as the most Consistent Quality Network in Pakistan.

The independent analytics come as an endorsement of Ufone 4G’s highest standards in 4G service delivery. The company outdid competition with a significant margin in the most indicators of ‘Overall Experience’ in the 4G subset. It stayed the outright winner in 4G Video Experience and joint winner in Overall Video Experience, which quantifies the quality of video streamed to mobile devices by measuring real-world video streams over an operator’s networks. The network also topped the 4G Download and Upload markers with significant margins against other players. It also emerged as the joint winner of 4G Voice App Experience.

As the most Consistent Quality Network, Ufone topped the ‘Excellent Consistent Quality’ and ‘Core Consistent Quality’ categories. As per Opensignal, Consistent Quality measure how often the experience of users on a network was sufficient to support the requirements of common applications by quantifying download and upload speeds, latency, jitter, packet loss, time to the first byte, and the percentage of tests attempted which did not succeed due to a connectivity issue on either the download or server response component.

Ufone 4G acquired 1800Mhz spectrum in 2021 and it continues to expand its 4G services in Pakistan to provide an unrivaled telecom experience to its customers. The transformation went on to raise the bar in terms of service delivery and redefined quality connectivity through its world-class voice and data services. The measures helped Ufone 4G to pull off the fastest customer acquisition in the industry during 2022. Owing to the continued modernization and up-gradation of its network, Ufone 4G went on to register as ‘Pakistan’s No 01 Voice and Data Network’ on Pakistan Telecom Authority (PTA)’s Mobile Networks Benchmark Report 2022.

Ufone 4G continues to invest and innovate in order to align its network with the highest global standards while it also focuses on expanding it to bring its services to increased users, especially across the far-flung and hitherto unconnected regions of the country. The company’s continued endeavor to deliver top-notch telecom services to its customers in order to improve their experience mirrors the centrality of customers in its business philosophy as is reflected in its cherished slogan: ‘Tum Hi To Ho!’

PTCL & Ufone swiftly restore network disrupted by torrential rains, flooding in the Southern region

Karachi:PTCL and Ufone have swiftly restored their network disrupted by heavy rains and flooding in parts of Balochistan and Sindh in a record time through rapid mobilization of their on-ground resources. The torrential rains also caused major damage to road and bridge infrastructure in the region, further intensifying the challenge of timely restoration of the network, however, PTCL and Ufone field teams were able to live up to their commitment to keeping their customers connected at all times.

Sindh, especially Karachi and the coastal belt of Balochistan received one of the heaviest monsoon spells in the recent past, which resulted in urban flooding, severe damage to roads and bridges infrastructure, and massive commercial power breakdown. PTCL’s Optical Fiber cable deployed alongside roads and bridges also got swept away at multiple locations.

The Northern and Central Zones of the country were no different where exchanges and network nodes got flooded leading to network outages. Baluchistan’s Makran division was the worst hit, resulting in major damage to road infrastructure, electricity transmission lines, and the PTCL OFC network. The cumulative situation resulted in a huge challenge before the PTCL and Ufone field teams to uphold their commitment to keeping their customers seamlessly connected.

As the National Carrier and Backbone of Country’s Connectivity, the company quickly responded to the situation by deploying teams in the affected area to restore the Optical Fiber Cable through a workaround in order to maintain the best possible business continuity. Despite the inclement weather, difficult terrain, and enormity of the challenge, the teams conducted a 24/7 operation with a high level of commitment to best facilitate the customers.

The company tackled the network disruption across the Southern, North, and Central region caused by commercial power breakdown through the deployment of portable generators until the issue was fixed. The field teams worked tirelessly for days to completely restore connectivity to Turbat, Ormara, Pasni, and Gawadar areas of the worst hit Makran Division in Balochistan and the affected regions of Sindh.

PTCL Group’s effective and timely response to the massive challenge in the face of countless hardships is evidence of its efficiency, resiliency, and readiness to maintain seamless connectivity at all times. The successful restoration of the network amidst a major calamity speaks volumes of the remarkable commitment and resilience of the on-ground teams whose efforts facilitated the smooth conducting of emergency and relief activities and continuity of life and business activities.

PTCL Group donates life jackets to fishermen community of Karachi

Karachi: PTCL Group, Pakistan’s largest telecom operators PTCL & Ufone has donated life jackets to the fishermen community of Karachi to ensure safety of small-scale level fishermen during high tide season at a ceremony held in FCS HQ in Karachi.

Chairman, Fishermen Cooperative Society (FCS), Zahid Ibrahim Bhatti was presented with life jackets by PTCL Group representatives, to acknowledge the efforts of the local fishermen.

Expressing his thoughts regarding the initiative, Head of Public Relations and Corporate Communication, PTCL Group, Amir Pasha said that “PTCL Group was always on the lookout for opportunities to give back to the community where it is most needed. He said that the Monsoon season is around the corner and there is pressing need to undertake measures to ensure safety of fishermen community, who risk their lives to sustain the seafood supply chain. He said safety is of paramount importance and these fishermen need to be equipped with both training and necessary safety gear.”

Also speaking at the occasion, Chairman Fishermen Cooperative Society (FCS), Zahid Ibrahim Bhatti expressed his gratitude toward PTCL Group for the thoughtful intervention. He said that “fishermen are aware of the risk, however, there is a cost involved in taking the necessary precautionary measures, which is unbearable for small-scale fishermen. He hoped that the support coming from the private sector in terms of training and safety equipment will go a long way in reducing safety incidents.”

PTCL Group is widely recognized for its corporate social responsibility initiatives that create impactful shared value. Both PTCL & Ufone are at the forefront to ensure welfare of the communities it serves

Mondia powers new Ufone Gaming Portal in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN – EQS Newswire – 12 February 2021 – Mondia (www.Mondia.com), a leading technology company that specialises in the marketing and distribution of digital content, announced the launch of a new ufone gaming portal, a leading telecommunications provider in Pakistan, to bring customers a unique gaming experience.

The new gaming portal, Ubox by Ufone, will offer customers an ‘All-You-Can-Eat’ gaming experience which includes thousands of premium games. The dedicated gaming platform will be available as a web portal – countering barriers of legacy devices, as well as an app for smartphone users. Mondia will deploy the latest portal and application, as well as manage premium content.

“Telcos today are looking for unique ways to strengthen the relationship with their online audiences which makes Mondia a partner of choice, as we are an industry leader in content and platform services, lifecycle management and in driving engagement,” said Dr Amadeo Rahmann, Chief Executive Officer of Mondia. “Ufone is a successful telco operator, and we are looking forward to supporting their mobile gaming portfolio by providing innovative and engaging digital experiences to their customers through a world-class ecosystem of games and content.”

The mobile game offering will enable Ufone mobile users to access unlimited content, offering hundreds of games from well-known and top gaming publishers through a monthly subscription.

“Gaming is a growing content segment and our partnership with Mondia is an endorsement of our commitment to deliver an enriching digital experience that our customers want,” said Ufone’s spokesperson. “We continue to build our value proposition around our customers, and we are excited to partner with Mondia as they have the same business ethos,” he concluded.

Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Mondia.

About Mondia:

Mondia (www.Mondia.com) is a leading technology company specialising in the marketing and distribution of digital content. Mondia has deep insight into where the markets are headed and the role of technology to solve business challenges while enabling the best user experiences. Mondia, through its content-agnostic platforms creates personalised digital experiences for people by providing them with the latest world-class digital content, accessible anywhere and anytime; including health, entertainment, lifestyle, gaming, music and sports. Mondia is well-positioned to enable its enterprise customers to grow their user engagement and maximise their monetisation potential through payment connectivity, customer acquisition and life cycle management services.

With 18 locations across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Mondia reaches over 1.4bn end-users across over 60 countries. The company partners with more than 80 telco operators from around the world, over 1,000 content providers and 200 merchants. Mondia services are available in Ethiopia, Nigeria and Pakistan through mondia.cell.For more information please visit: www.Mondia.com.

About Ufone:

Ufone (www.Ufone.com) is a Pakistani Cellular Company with its presence in all the major cities of Pakistan along with a comprehensive coverage across all major towns, villages and tehsil headquarters of the country. The company employs more than 3,850 people and operates with a network of more than 320 franchises and company-owned customer service centers along with a distribution network of 150,000 outlets nationwide.

Zong Leads Mobile Data Speeds in Pakistan: PTA Survey Indicates

According to the latest survey it has proved that Zong is listed as the No 1 in data speeds, the survey of all connections brought PTA to a conclusion that other networks are not satisfactory like Zong.

3G speed for Ufone Telenor users is below 2Mbps and for Mobilink its 3G speed stood at 5.04Mbps and Zong hit the charts with 7.71MBPS of average 3G speeds on its network.

It’s difficult to say that Telenor’s average speed for 3G network reduced from 2.2Mbps during PTA’s last QoS survey to 1.94Mbps. The other networks Ufone, Mobilink also focused to increase the speed of their 3G networks since the last survey held preceding year.

According to PTA it has carried out this broad Quality of Service survey of 3G and 2G networks in Islamabad, Peshawar and Rawalpindi to evaluate voice and data QoS as per the required standards.

Further PTA told they are doing QoS Survey in other regions of Pakistan.

PTA didn’t survey 4G Networks this time.

Adhoc QoS survey indicates that 3G operators with 10MHz frequency spectrum is higher than that of the Internet data speed supported by 3G operators with 5MHz frequency spectrum.

3G Speeds

During PTA survey it found data “throughput” of all 3G operators is higher than the benchmark set in their respective licenses. Data throughput of Zong is maximum supported by Mobilink, whereas data throughput of Ufone is the lowest among all NGMS operators.

Strong Signals

PTA’s QoS survey presented that strong signals of entire 3G/4G operators are above the benchmark signifying worthy in majority of the listed areas.

The least the value of strong signals on negative axis, the greater is the signal power. PTA highlighted that entire strength of Ufone and Telenor networks is better than Mobilink and Zong but due to additional frequency consumed by Zong and Mobilink for 3G/4G networks, their quality is superior.

Network Availability – 2G Networks

Network availability is the chance that mobile services are easy to access to an end customer by presenting network indicator on the mobile phone through the whole consumption.

Grade of 2G Services

Grade of service is chance that the end customer cannot approach the mobile services when demanded if it is proffered by presenting the network indicator on the mobile phone. In simple words, Grade of Service is Network Blocking.

The mobile operator community is meeting a particular Grade of Service that’s beholden in their license terms.

Call Connection Time

Call connection time the duration between sending of entire call initiation details by the caller and in reward receipt of call setup notification. In more simple words it is time between dialing a number and hearing ring back tone.

Adding more PTA also informed the call connection time of the mobile operator is not contented and they require doing in better way of connecting voice calls.

Call Completion Ratio

Call Completion Ratio is the probability that a service, once facilitated will move on to be supported under specific conditions for a particular time.  In simple words, this KPI gives information about Call Drops.

End to End Speech Quality

End-to-End Speech Quality of all the mobile operators is beyond the standard.

SMS Success Rate

SMS Success Rate is the chance that short texts will deliver soon and successfully, end-to-end when requested and presented of the related information on the mobile phone

End to End SMS Delivery Time

End-to-End SMS Delivery Time is period between sending short texts to a short message center and receiving the very same short message at desired mobile phone.

Ufone Responds with Acceptable Curves of Faisal Qureshi

Ufone responded long the same venture of Mobilink displaying Nargis Fakri on front pages of local news papers but with lesser acceptable curves for advertising its U5a Smartphone which is selling for Rs.5,999.

Both re popular for humorous TV and print ads they have been doing with success for over a decade till now. The funny ads like Saaf Awaaz have become their trade mark during recent years.

Bringing smile and capitalizing from the fame Nargis Fakhri received last week, Faisal Qurehshi, made an appearance on the front pages of local papers posing exactly the same and for reasons that cannot be mentioned here with much lesser curves.

Playing safe and not taking any chances of a backlash, the Islamic matching Topi  (cap) with Arabic cotton scarf (locally called as Rumaal) was worn by Faisal Qureshi.

Excuse me, Mobile Phone humara sasta aur behtar hay, says the tagline to give a loud and clear message along with all the fun.

Also Read: Ufone Smart U5A: Quad Core Phone for only Rs. 5,999

It can be said that Faisal Qureshi was successful in sparkling the nation, it is to be hoped that this was ad of the series is the last where models are asked for appearing in such poses.

It is still unsure as to the response of the Pakistani social media on this move, mainly those who objected to in-content ads and to the pose itself.

It also remains to be seen that if a man posing as such is disturbing equally as Nargis Fakhri or not?

Zong announces pre-ordering of iPhone 6s & 6s plus in Pakistan

Soon after the declaration of presenting most recent iPhones in Pakistan by i2 and Ufone, Zong has likewise bounced into the diversion to bring iPhone 6s and iPhone 6S Plus for its customers.

As indicated by the details, the company is setting up the most intriguing iPhones yet on pre-orders from one week from now, that is November 6, 2015. The customers of Zong will have the capacity to get hands-on experience of these handsets by obtaining them from November 13, 2015, as told by the company.

It is imperative to mention here that Zong was the last telecom operator of Pakistan that presented iPhones without precedent for the nation a year ago however now, the situation is completely changed and company appears to be resolved this time and this is the very reason it has upgraded this breaking news on its official website. Despite the fact that there are no further details unveiled yet.

To the extent the costs of iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus in Pakistan are concerned, it appears like that the base 16 GB model of iPhone 6S can cost up to Rs. 80,000 while the cost of iPhone 6S Plus will be more than Rs. 100,000.

It stays to be seen when rest of the telecom operators of Pakistan will report their position with respect to the introduction of Apple’s most recent leaders. Yet, expect some infectious information bundles for the entire year on purchasing any of these handsets.

iPhone 6S and 6S Plus to be Officially Sold in Pakistan from Mid-November

Ufone is good to go to put iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s plus, the most advanced iPhones yet, on sale for its clients starting Friday, November 13, 2015, we have gained from sources.

While we don’t have any points of interest on the price of iPhone 6S and 6S plus starting yet, yet we can let you know that more subtle elements will be authoritatively conveyed on November sixth, 2015 when Ufone will begin tolerating pre-orders.

Different administrators will begin comparable offerings, however we don’t have official affirmations from them as such.

Apple had joined hands with neighborhood telecom players a year ago to present its iPhones in Pakistan, authoritatively, and to proceed with the custom iPhone 6S and 6S plus will be put on racks this year once more.

Not to be said iPhones sold through telecom administrators accompany official guarantees and preferred costs over open business sector. These officially sold phones will be factory unlocked.

As of now the base models (with 16GB memory) of iPhone 6S and 6S Plus are being sold at around Rs. 80K and Rs. 100K or above.

It is yet to be perceived how telcos are going to value these phones, yet from the reputation we can affirm that costs from all administrators will be the same, with the exception of the voice and information bargains that they may offer to iPhone purchasers.

Activate your UPaisa Wallet and get the gift of 1000 minutes, SMS and MBs

Ufone has just introduced UPaisa wallet about one year ago and the company is now booming with a free bucket as reward to activate it. No doubt this UPaisa wallet activation is free and users are allowed to get fully functional Debit Card delivered at their door step to transfer money without any modifications.

Hence, Ufone is giving four gifts with UPaisa Wallet:

  1. Free activation of UPaisa Wallet
  2. Free Bucket
  3. Free Debit Card delivery
  4. Free Money transfer

 

Activation Procedure

To activate your UPaisa Wallet, you just need to dial *60# from your Ufone connection. After getting successful notification, the company will provide a functional Debit Card at your doorstep. This debit card will permit you to transfer money up to Rs. 80,000 per month to any UPaisa Wallet in Pakistan without any charges.

Free Bucket:

On UPaisa wallet activation, Ufone is providing away 1000 minutes of talk time to all PTCL, Vfone, Ufone numbers, 1000 SMS to all networks and 1000 MB of 2G or 3G mobile internet absolutely free.

 

Terms & Conditions

  • If you have Prepaid Ufone connection then you can get it now
  • The free bucket will be valid for 24 hours after receiving a confirmation SMS
  • The free minutes will only be valid for Ufone to Ufone, PTCL and PTCL Wireless calls.
  • Free SMS will be valid for on-net and off-net local SMS
  • The 1000 MB internet will be for 2G and 3G
  • Balance Query on *707#

The number of 3G/4G Users in Pakistan Increased reached 13 Million

Pakistan technology is booming in every single day, Pakistan mobile operators has included one million 3G/4G users this April in 2015 to manage the entire count of 3G and 4G users in country to 13 million announced by recently declared stats from Pakistan Telecommunication Authority.

Recently Zong top charts and participated 487,487 new users to its 3G network, on the other hand Telenor added some 326,844 new users to 3G data services. Mobilink was capable to hold 226,877 new 3G data users during the month of April.

According to news declared from PTA that Ufone lost around 121,389 data users during the month.

Total number of 4G consumers in Pakistan now reached 141,177 with Warid leading the ranks with its 79,213 4G LTE users.3G/4G Mobile users in Pakistan

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