Nawras Telecom Vs Oman Mobile

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E-Transfer
My news is that Nawras Telecom & Oman Mobile has offered a credit transfer facility between the prepaid subscribers.

'Ibhar - WiFi'
The latest Oman Mobile internet wireless service for post and prepaid subscribers for PDA & laptop.

After celebrating its 1st year anniversary on 16 March 2006, Nawras has bombed its loyal customers with a new gift.

PRESS RELEASE - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
09 April 2006



Nawras, the Omani Qatari Telecommunications Company SAOC, the Sultanate’s customer-friendly communications provider, has introduced a Pre-to-Postpaid Migration service in response to the needs and requests of its valuable customers.



The Pre-to-Postpaid Migration service will allow Nawras customers with a Nawras Mousbak or Nawras MousbakPlus (prepaid) to change their subscription type to a Nawras Ajel (postpaid) and at the same time keep their existing mobile number and SIM card. The customers, who would like to benefit from the Pre-to-Postpaid Migration service, can visit one of Nawras’ 13 stores across the Sultanate to migrate their mobile service within minutes free of charge.



Hilde Aerts, Nawras’ Product Manager, commented: “We always want the best for our customers. I’m happy to introduce this new service because it will give our high usage prepaid customers the opportunity to reduce their call expenses by switching to postpaid and enjoy other postpaid benefits, without loosing their well known and communicated mobile number.”



The migration procedure is designed to be easy and convenient. All the Nawras prepaid customers have to do is to visit one of the Nawras stores, and present the usual documents (ID card, bank statement or salary slip) required for a normal Nawras Ajel activation. The service even ensures that, if the customer has any credit left on his/her prepaid account at the time of the migration, the amount will be credited on the first Nawras Ajel bill.



Nawras Ajel, which is considered the most prestigious, yet the most affordable postpaid product in the market, offers many fantastic benefits such as: call rates starting from 19 bz per minute, the lowest international call and roaming rates in the Sultanate and priority access to Customer Service through a dedicated free of charge number, 24 hours a day and seven days a week. Furthermore, Nawras Ajel customers enjoy the fastest and most affordable access to Emails and the Internet through Nawras’ Mobile Broadband network.



Additionally, Nawras Ajel customers can track their usage details through an itemized, free of charge, monthly bill and they can access “MyNawras” on the Nawras website to look up details relating to their account, bill information and call history. On top of this, Nawras has made it easy for Nawras Ajel customers to pay their bills at over 300 payment channels, ranging from Bank Muscat and Oman Arab Bank branches to ATM payment and Internet banking.



For further information on the Pre-to-Postpaid Migration service, customers can contact Nawras Customer Service by calling 1500 or visit a Nawras store.

The Nawras Data Module is available only for postpaid custmers Narwas Ajel.

Introducing the Nawras Data Module - the fastest and most affordable mobile data service in the Sultanate. With the Nawras Data Module, you can download as much data as you want for a subscription fee as low as 3 R.O per month, with unlimited download of data for a subscription fee never exceeding 39 R.O per month.

With Nawras EDGE-based network, you can get the fastest data service in the Sultanate anywhere Nawras coverage is available.

To benefit from this incredible offer, simply sign up for nawras Ajel - the premier choice postpaid product, or as an existing nawras Ajel customer simply visit your nearest Nawras store or call our Customer Service on 1500.

Nawras has introduced a new service for its customers of nawras Mousbak and Nawras MousbakPlus. Both are able to transfer credits via SMS, its cool.

For more details click here.


Thumps up for Nawras.

Let us give Oman Mobile some cedit for its Products and Services for the year 2005.

The first service that is offered that you can pay your bills for postpaid and prepaid services at anytime by using the Omantel or Oman Arab Bank (OAB) Bill Payment Machines that are available in the Oman Mobile or Omantel counters.

The recent service is Tarjim provided by Oman Mobile is instant SMS translation of word(s) from Arabic-English translation and vice versa and it is based on Sakhr’s online translation technology.

Just send an SMS to 90110 after typing the word or pharagrah.

The cost of Tarjim service is 40 Bz per translation.

If you are using Tarjim service,try to avoid jargon or slang and write the proper way (Fusihah) in Arabic.

Nawras telecom and OmanMobile have been providing various offers since the lunch of Nawras Telecom in Oman.

Now with the celebration the Holy month of Ramadan nawras has an attractive promotion for its postpaid and prepaid services.

Nawras Post Paid promotion:

Starting from the 3rd of October 2005, you can buy any nawras Ajel (postpaid) welcome pack and get 50% off the price, meaning you will only pay RO 7 instead of RO 14 for the welcome pack! What’s more, if you are already subscribing to a mobile service, and you bring your two latest monthly bills with no balance brought forward to the nearest Nawras store, we offer :

* Free subscription for 6 months, if the sum of the invoiced amounts is above RO 100, or
* Free subscription for 3 months, if the sum of the invoiced amounts is between RO 50 and RO 100

The promotion is valid until 31 December 2005.

Nawras PrePaid promotion:

Nawras has also launched an attractive promotion for nawras Mousbak and nawras MousbakPlus. If you buy and activate any nawras Mousbak or nawras MousbakPlus welcome pack until the end of November, or as an existing customer, you spend more than RO 14 during the months of October or November, you will enter a draw to win up to 40,000 minutes of talk time!

35 lucky winners will win talk time ranging from RO 100 to RO 1,000 (corresponding to 40,000 minutes of talk time to other Nawras customers), at a prize draw to take place on December 15th 2005.

While OmanMobile hasn't come up with any offer yet.

I decided to post other bloggers opinion about Nawras's services.



Ghosty said:

On the other hand, if you're looking to buy a Nawras line (i.e.: Ajel), there'll be (or there is, you would have to enquire through 1500) an offer to buy the Ajel package and you get a free EDGE/E-GPRS card for your laptop or PC which you can connect through your Nawras Ajel line so you can connect to the 'net at a speed three times faster than dial up (that would be 168Kbps). And what's better, is that you always have the connection with you where-ever you go, no need for silly extra usernames and passwords. Just your normal username and password that you use for your 'net connection back at home. Only disadvantage of this service is you're charged almost 3 Baizas per kilobyte you download through the phone via your PC/laptop.

Note: to be updated.

The two mobile telecom have been moving rapidly with their promotions that most of the time I didn’t get a change to catch up with them.

My research will move on & see who is gaining.

Oman Mobile has offered new scheme for post-paid customer, depend on the customer's budget and requirements.

• Talk time included is applicable within the Sultanate*
• After exceeding the SMS included, cost per SMS is 10 Bz**
• Discounted rates per extra minutes refer to minutes used above the included minutes
• Peak hours: 6:00 am to 8:00 pm
• Off-peak hours: 8:00 pm to 6:00 am and 24 hours on Fridays and national holidays

I advice the people to check their bills before selecting the plan as follows:

• Check number of calls (peak/off-peak)
• Check number of SMS (Local & international)
• check the total bill per month, advice the last 6 months to know more accurately how much you spend per month.

After that check the number of calls and SMS against the plan you want to select, addition cost against the peak and off-peak hours in addition to SMS (locally & internationally).

Here is the break up of the actual value included in the plan:

For more information visit http://www.omanmobile.om/corp/mada.htm

read Mada FAQs

MOHSIN Haider Darwish LLC has been appointed premium distributor and dealer for Nawras products in Oman. MHD would be promoting its Ajel (Post-paid SIM), Mousbak (Pre-paid SIM) and recharge scratch cards through its vast number of showrooms and dealer network. With eight showrooms in the Sultanate and a dealer network of over 50, MHD LLC is well-positioned to take the services of Nawras to every part of the Sultanate.

The partnership was ratified by Lujaina M. Darwish, joint deputy managing director of MHD LLC; and Ross Cormack, CEO of Nawras at its head office in Azaiba.

During a brief ceremony, Lujaina M. Darwish expressed the commitment of MHD LLC to providing better and more focused services to the people of Oman.

“We are delighted at this partnership as we can now offer instant mobility solutions to the people of Oman,” she said.

MHD LLC is one of the leading distributors of Nokia in Oman and will now be able to offer the entire solution comprising mobile phone, SIM card and GSM service all under one roof.

Ross Cormack, CEO of Nawras, added: “We have the best products to bring to the people of Oman, but we need a partner as strong as MHD LLC, who have over years built excellent customer relationships, to bring them closer to us.” Niklas Nielsen, sales and logistics director for Nawras on the conclusion of the agreement commented that MHD LLC has been in our focus to make it a key partner on the distributor side. Its professionalism and market reach together with its position as a key player in the mobile phone market in Oman has secured MHD LLC this agreement. We are convinced that they will live up to our high expectations, and develop into a long-term partnership”.

“We have been working very closely with Nawras from the pre-launch stage and we are very much impressed with its world-class expertise, pleasant professionalism and endless enthusiasm towards fulfilling the needs of the Omani market. All our dealers are excited to be a part of this new partnership as we are all convinced that we will be adding immense value to our customers. Our sales team will focus on both retailing and distribution of their products and are eager to fly with the wings of Nawras,” said Murli Pillai, manager, Telecom of MHD LLC.

MHD LLC’s branches have been serving the Omani market across the length and breadth of the Sultanate and are now fully geared with state-of-the-art computer systems to provide on-site activation of SIM cards. Nawras has spared no efforts to provide exhaustive training to the sales staff in order to ensure that the customer has a pleasant and satisfying buying experience. The software of Nawras has been seamlessly integrated with the advanced inventory and accounting software of MHD LLC with leased line connectivity to all the branches, MHD can provide on line activation to the customers at all times.

“We firmly believe that Nawras will become the communication service provider of choice for the people of Oman and we are very excited to join hands with them to bring world class service to our valued customers. Customer satisfaction is the guiding principle of MHD LLC as we strive to provide more and better solutions to the people of Oman. We are very happy to be of service yet again and bring the products and services of Nawras to our customer,” said Ashish Srivastava, general manager, Computers Office Automation and Telecommunication Division of MHD LLC.