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Wateen: Recharge & Win a Trip to Ferrari World

Mee — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 07:02:13 +0000

Wateen Telecom has announced the launch of a new reconnect and recharge campaign for subscribers who hadn’t recharged their Wateen Internet and Telephony accounts from 31st August, 2010.

Subscribers in Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad who now recharge their accounts can stand to win:

Get one month of line rent absolutely FREE
Have their previous dues waived off
Enter a lucky draw to win an all expense paid trip to Ferrari World in Abu Dhabi*

* Conditions Apply. Ferrari World Lucky Draw applicable for Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad subscribers only. Visit http://go.wateen.net for details

The limited time offer gives the subscribers to win a trip of a lifetime at the world’s largest indoor theme park and ride the world’s fastest roller coaster which reaches speeds of 0-100 in 2 seconds.

At the same time, subscribers in other cities can avail the same offer and stand to win motorbikes and ipods in the lucky draw. Details for the promotion are available at http://go.wateen.net.

Wateen Offers Bill Waiver and More for Inactive Customers

Mee — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:02:56 +0000

Wateen has offered its inactive customers, who have not used their Wateen accounts since 30th April 2010, can recharge their accounts and get following incentives:

Previous bill amounts WAIVED OFF
One month’s LINE RENT absolutely FREE
Entry into a lucky draw to WIN AN IPOD

This offer is valid till 21st September.

Wateen customers can get WCard from nearest retail outlet or get a PIN from any MCB merchant outlet and recharge to reconnect today.

As soon as you recharge, your bill date will be revised to the 21st of each month and your previous bill amount will be waived off. Your next month’s line rent will be transferred into your account on or by 21st September, 2010.

Lucky Draw winners of the iPod will be posted on go.wateen.net at the end of the promotion period.

Student Discount Package By Wateen in Selected Cities

Mee — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 09:32:12 +0000

Thanks to USF, Wateen telecom is offering WiMAX broadband services at discounted rates for students in selected cities.

This discount is offered exclusively for students in following cities:

Okara
Sargodha
Abbottabad
Gujrat
Sialkot
Sheikhupura
Sahiwal

Student of these cities can get discount on Wateen services by simply presenting their School, college, University identity at Wateen Franchises.

Discounted Wateen Rates for Students are as following:

256 Kbps – Unlimited Volume for Rs. 839
512 Kbps – Unlimited Volume for Rs. 909
1 Mbps – 1 GB Limit for Rs. 299
1 Mbps – Unlimited Volume for Rs. 979

All these packages come with

Upfront cost: Zero
Security: Zero
Monthly Device Rental: Zero

For more information call Wateen’s helpline here: 111-365-111 (Be informed that wait time is usually longer than 4-5 minutes)

It merits mentioning here that these cities were offered subsidy by USF (see map above) – where it is mandatory for broadband operators to achieve a target number of customers to start receiving the subsidy grants from USF. As it is apparent from the map that USF has plans to stretch its subsidy for broadband to other under-served cities of Pakistan as well.

For complete details on USF’s Broadband programme: http://www.usf.org.pk/Broadband-Programme.aspx

Now Watch Full Length Movies on Wateen

Mee — Wed, 26 May 2010 05:20:34 +0000

Wateen has got a portal that is filled with multiple segments ranging from news section to blogs and from games to movies.

It is indeed a good effort to bring forward the local content and that too backed by such a large ISP. This can probably serve as an example for the rest of companies to deploy their portals where users can share content from our local industry.

However, there is a problem that we wanted to point out. Just like PTCL’s entertainment portal (which is exclusively available for only PTCL broadband users), Wateen has started uploading full length movies – on third parties’ servers – and which are available for everyone to watch them.

Now we are not sure if they have got redistribution license for these movies or not. Wateen is not only uploading these full length (apparently pirated) videos from admin’s account but they are also advertising it through their official twitter account.

Here is the link for Video Portal on Wateen’s website: http://videos.wateen.com/index.php

Another question is that why an ISP like Wateen is hosting videos on third party service providers? Because they are illegal?

But let’s take it this way, what if Wateen starts offering services with hosted on their own servers, maybe one day it can replace Youtube? Why not? They can commercialize the project, make money out of it and above all: do a service to this country by providing our own video sharing platform. [Particularly after this big-ban incident]