07 Apr, 2008

Zong Does it again (Buy any number online)

Posted by: yaser In: Marketing & Advertisement|Telecommunication

After launching there official website and announcing there first few packages they have finally stepped into the market. While I was going through there website what really hit me was something very different and Viral (word of mouth advertisement) they have kicked off with. You can buy any number and I mean any number through there website ( click ).

Buy numbers like 0313-420-9211 or 0312-9999999

I still remember when Ufone offered free Sims on 14th August there were long queues to buy sims but this really is something really cool and effortless for customers. Zong’s first step in the market is cool but let see if they live up to the expectations. One thing is for sure, if they really pull this one off and deliver Sims at door steps then this is a sure thing that they will win the first round.

  • Rs 150 Rs is the cost of the sim if you pick it up from there office.
  • Rs 200 is the Cost if you want it to be delivered to there doorstep(thats for Lahore don’t know about other cities).

They haven’t really advertised it anywhere (I think) but already 21 thousand numbers have been sold online(in 1 or 2 days). When I first checked the number was around 17 thousand and in 3 hours it has climbed to 21K. One thing is really to be decided if these are post paid or pre paid numbers(i have no clue and its not mentioned on there website). Most of the connections issued in this way would be legitimate. However there is no check on Sim being issued on a single ID card number (I bought 2, may be there is a check on higher number). This can also result as a problem if few people buy a lot of golden numbers and save them for future selling. Besides this is a tactic often used by franchises to earn extra cash so i wonder what franchise owners have to say about this.

As far as there packages are concerned I kind of liked there Free Package which has

  • Night free to one number (limited time offer).
  • Rs. 3.99 Per hour 12pm to 7am ( Ladies First and Telenor killer)
  • Break time Rs. 3.99 per hour
  • f n f rate Rs. 1
  • GPRS 10 Rs/MB
  • Sms to any number @ Rs. 0.20 (trying to cope up with Djuice)

Lets see how they are in terms of service (waiting for my sim before i comment on that )

PS: Our beloved Sharjeel Qureshi got a number which everyone dreams off :D

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12 Responses to "Zong Does it again (Buy any number online)"

1 | cybean

April 8th, 2008 at 6:17 pm

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two things … One iska mujhey kia faida (reply to your msn message)!!!
and 2nd, I think Zong is Prepaid .. its like mobilink Jazz … now if you are asking keh “Jazz” kay packages prepaid hain ya postpaid tou …

2 | yaser

April 8th, 2008 at 6:27 pm

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You have made a point however i see it other way around, the website is zong.com.pk and there are 2 major partitions pre-paid packages and post paid packages.. (its like having indigo detail inside Jazz website without mentioning Indigo’s name :) ).. How can we be so sure?

3 | Tariq

April 8th, 2008 at 7:00 pm

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But does not it seams Malik is advertising Zong?;)

4 | Irfan

April 9th, 2008 at 5:58 pm

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FYI

Number with 8 consecutive numbers = Rs. 100,000
Number with 7 consecutive numbers = Rs. 50,000
Number with 6 consecutive numbers = cant remember
Number with 786 in it = Rs. 25,000

and numbers with 4 or more consecutive numbers were not opened online. And it is quite possible that you reserved the number online and it is already issued to someone else.

There were long queues …. untrained staff (they dont event know the procedure)

A very pathetic start … :(

5 | yaser

April 10th, 2008 at 9:34 am

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@ Tariq : well thats not true because all my articles either appreciate good things or criticize the bad things about companies

@ Irfan : Thanks for the info. Even if all those numbers were restricted there are still 80 thousand happy customers who would be a lot happy and pro-Zong if they get there numbers delivered to there home.
As far as more than one people buying the same number well thats something not that good however i can’t really comment about there transaction handling may be someone who coded this knows better.
About there staff being bad, if they really are then they should really try improving it otherwise they will piss people off really quick

6 | Tariq

April 10th, 2008 at 10:47 am

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It was joke and you took serious :D

7 | yaser

April 10th, 2008 at 1:01 pm

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ahan … nope no offense taken… thats just a clarification :)

8 | Tariq

April 15th, 2008 at 5:06 pm

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Please check from their site again, they removed option of door step delivery now!

9 | yaser

April 17th, 2008 at 5:31 pm

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Tried but its down… may be they did remove it.. but i guess there were more than 1 lac sales done through that website…
But they better have some logistics for delivering those and should get it done in no more than a week , otherwise they are in deep trouble and would have a lot of people who are really pissed off

10 | Daniel

July 24th, 2008 at 1:00 pm

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I couldn’t understand some parts of this article Zong Does it again (Buy any number online), but I guess I just need to check some more resources regarding this, because it sounds interesting.

11 | RYErnest

November 29th, 2008 at 10:38 am

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Nice post u have here :D Added to my RSS reader

12 | Jabran

April 20th, 2009 at 2:54 pm

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Hi,

I am intrested in zong 8 aney package, If anyone want to give me zong 8 aney package to me?

Thankyou

Regards..

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