Warid Introduces Language Learner

Language plays a key role in communication and Warid aims at bridging all communication needs of its customers.
Whether you are watching a foreign language film, meeting a person who doesn’t understand your language or visiting a country where they don’t understand your language, you often end up facing situations where language becomes the biggest barrier.
As a solution to overcome this barrier, we introduce Warid Language Learner service so that you can master the language of your desire and get coached anytime instantly through your mobile phone.
The service allows its subscribers to learn new languages with ease and efficiency. You can use both SMS and voice mediums to acquire the meaning of words and  phrases along with their correct pronunciations. Languages catered through this service include Arabic, English, French, German and Spanish. A user can subscribe to more than one language at a time.
As a DIY learning program, users can choose to either subscribe to receive daily SMS for a whole month or simply send a message to receive SMS containing new words and phrases in the selected language(s).
Mechanics:

• To Subscribe, SMS ‘Sub’ to 5757 or Dial 5757
• To Un-Subscribe, SMS ‘Un Sub’ to 5757 or Dial 5757
• To get a new word instantly SMS to 5758 with the desired language keyword, which are: FL (for French), AL (for Arabic), GL (for German), SL (for Spanish), EN (for English).

Charges:

• SMS/IVR
• SMS to 5757:      Rs 0.05+tax
• Call on 5757:      Rs 0.10+tax/min
• SMS to 5758:      Rs 0.50+tax
• Subscription
• Prepaid:               Rs 0.50+tax/language/day
• Postpaid:             Rs 15+tax/language/month

  Language keywords are mentioned below.

Language	Keyword
French	FL
Arabic	AL
German	GL
Spanish	SL
English	EN

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Mobilink's Revenues Slip 6% During Q4 2013

Mobilink’s revenue decreased 6% YoY to PKR 26 billion during fourth quarter of FY2013, down from Rs. 27.2 billion during the same duration last year.
Company said that this negative growth is mainly because of unstable security situation, higher withholding taxes and government requested network shutdowns during religious events.
Company’s revenues for entire FY2013 stood at Rs. 108 billion, slightly up from Rs. 106 billion it generated an year ago.

Mobilink’s EBITDA during Q4 FY 2013 fell 18 percent to Rs. 10 billion from Rs. 12 billion during the same duration last year. EBITDA margin was down 5.8 percentage points at 37.2 percent.
Financial report released by VimpelCom – the parent group of Mobilink – said that regulatory measures increased costs related to new sales, power outages and lower interconnect charges due to increased focus on on-net deals impacted the overall EBITDA.
Due to network modernization project going on, CAPEX in FY13 increased by 10% to USD 190 million. With this investment, Mobilink expects not only to further enhance the data and voice services it provides to its customers, but also to pave the way to introducing 3G services as soon as these are licensed.

Due to increased on-net call offerings, company’s Average Revenue Per User (ARPU) for Q4FY2013 declined to Rs. 219 from Rs. 243 during an year ago quarter.
Average minutes consumed per user on Mobilink were recorded at 222, up from 215 minutes per user month during Q4 2012.
Mobilink’s customers grew 4% YoY to 38 million at the end of 2013.




source : Propakistani.pk

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