ZONG launches SMS Delivery Report at Rs10 per month

ZONG has launched SMS Delivery Report today. Keeping in line with its history of providing distinctive services, ZONG has launched the SMS Delivery Report at a very negligible price and will ensure that the subscriber always receives the report for their SMS.

It’s always important to know whether your SMS has been delivered to the recipient or not. Previously, SMS delivery was given by most operators free of cost but due to the traffic on the messaging system owing to these delivery reports, most of the times the operators would shut down the delivery report service. This would leave subscribers in the dark having no option of knowing whether it is a system glitch or their SMS has not been delivered. Currently operators are revisiting their SMS delivery report situation and developing a charged subscription service for this purpose.

This service will add to the list of value added services being provided to its customers. With this service, customers will get information in real time as soon as the SMS is delivered to the recipient and will be assured of the delivery of their SMS on the destination.

Subscription:

For subscription, subscriber can send “SUB” to 533 for activation of this service

Charges:

The charges for Delivery Report Service are Rs 10+t per month.

Ufone’s Province Wise Traffic and Revenues’ Details

Ufone has earned an average of Rs. 1.19 for each outgoing minute on its network during last six months, revealed a report exclusively made available by highly reliable source that wanted to remain unnamed.

We are giving selected details from the said report to give our readers an idea about outgoing traffic and total voice revenues of Ufone.

Province Wise Subscriber Share:

As of December 2009, as per PTA’s quarterly report, Ufone had following number of subscribers in four provinces:

• Punjab: 10,982,829
• Sindh: 4,746,935
• Khyber Pakhtoon Khawan: 2,071,866
• Balochistan: 540,675       

Voice Traffic:
In last six months, Punjab naturally contributed highest share of outgoing voice traffic, i.e. 54 percent followed by Sindh that shared 28 percent. Khyber Pakhtoon Khawan generated 13 percent of total voice traffic for Ufone with Balochistan standing last with 5 percent traffic share.

Voice Revenues :

Following Graph Shows average revenue generated for one outgoing minute. It varies in different provinces because of different selection of tariff plans in different regions.

Note: 
           Revenues’ details are for Voice traffic only. It does not include SMS, GPRS and other details.
As evident from last graph that Punjab and Sindh share lower ARPUs, that’s apparently because higher SMS usage and intelligent tariff plan selection (Reference: outgoing minutes/revenues/per minute revenues details)
We are trying to get hold of similar information for other operators as well. We will continue this series as we get required information.