Al-Warid aka WaridTel aka Warid Telecom aka WHAT?!?!
Khawateen o hazarat...
Assalam-o-alaikum!
Yeh Radio Pakistan hai... Aaaj theek giara din kee takheer k bad baree mushkil say Warid Tel, Alwarid, Warid Telecom, Al-Waird Telecome, ya jo bhi uska naam hai launch ho gaya hai...
Aaap say guzarish kee jaatee hai k aap barai mehr bani apna connection kareebi waridtel dealer say talb karain....
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Here is a round up of the Warid Telecom Launch of 23rd May, 2005.
PreLaunch at 11:00 pm on 22nd May, 2005 (Research)
- WaridTel.com says "Comming Soon..."
- Web Development/Hosting Contract: Connect2Web.com (Mr. Asif)
- Currently the site is hosted on "Windows Server 2003"
- IP Address: 66.201.122.140
- Registered Name of Subnet: "WARID TELECOM , Celluar Service Provider and LDI Company In Pakistan"
- IP Range registered: 61.5.137.128 to 61.5.137.255
- Other known sub-domains: webmail.waridtel.com, mail.waridtel.com, jobs.waridtel.com
- Other known sites: http://61.5.137.2/ (Server Iron)
The day of the launch: 23rd May, 2005
5:30 am
- Ok it's early morning... I checked with their website...
- WaridTel.com is currently down (Not opening)
- Tried DNS resolution: Success
- Ip resolving to 66.201.137.137
- The webserver on 66.201.137.137 seems to be down...
6:30 am
- After a little while
- Ok the news paper is here
- DAWN Front page: Telenor welcome Waird Telecom (Hehe... oye! where is warid?)
Wasnt it supposed to be on the front page?
- Flip, ok... Here is Alwarid... Page2.... Full Page LAAAL! (Red)
- Ok... I can see a lot of french black ants marching over the red curtain on this page.
Initially they were claiming to make things simple but that just doesnt seem to be the case.
- In this full RED page Alwarid and anounces
- "Rs 1.5 for friend" ... oh hello?!? Whats that! For friend what?
- "Rs 2 on net" .. and whats on net? Heck!? What does this mean?
Such a vague tariff... I figured this would be "on same network" - Rs. 3 for calls anywhere is Pakistan.
- Rs 0.5-Rs 1 for SMS (Warid baba... yeh wording say kiya samjh ayega?)
- Zero line-rent available on PostPaid
- Pay per 30 seconds rather than per minute
- Further discounts on off peak calling (22:00 to 07:00)
- Excluding Tax
First of all, the ad is too vague... Having read all that can anyone answer me whats the call and SMS rate for WaridTel? Heck!? I think this is the most un-friendly ad ever! Even Telenor's welcome ad for Alwarid was much better!
And would anyone tell me where did the saturday/sunday free, free SMS and Free night calling go? Haha, now thats what I call a rumour... I wonder if Telenor actually made their SMS free because of this rumour.
8:00 am
- Main zamzama road full of red clothes on all poles. Giving a look of a Bull Race about to begin in Spain.
1:00 pm
- Oops the website is still down... Same situation as at 5:30am
3:00 pm
- ok the site is up... Alwarid has in total 4 pages and each page a total of around 1 MB of BMP graphics...? Hello?!!? this site is supposed to be loaded in a third world country?! aka Pakistan!
People get annoyed when they arent able to send a simple 1 liner email from their gmail accounts! How could they ever load pages with 1 MB Windows Bitmap (BMP) files!
- Ok so the main page wouldnt stop loading... Seems the flash thing is too big... I'm getting a download speed of 600KB/sec... It's been more than 30 minutes the SWF (Flash file) on their main page still isnt complete (Progress: Page Loading)... I'll stop here...
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If the main page doesnt have any animation/sound/interactive menus, I wonder why they couldnt put that ladys' picture as JPEG image instead of a never ending SWF file...
- In short the website is a gola gunda, their advertising scheme was a mess! However its pre-mature to judge them on their service...!
Did anyone get the WaridTel connection?
Ok folks... All the Alwarid fans... Game Over... Better luck next time! Another licence?
posted by yasirmemon at 5/23/2005 03:13:00 PM
12 Comments:
heck thats a lot of visitors who came to hunt for warid and landed on yoru site - damn dont you wish you had something to sell for that one day - probably coul dhave made a few hundred ;)
warid has money, warid has resources, warid has the top names in the telecom industry but it does not have people to actually do the ground work everyone is a BOSS and no one seems to take responsibility to do the work -
I pointed it out long time ago and you see it today, telenor made it to the front page, and warid landed on one of the middle pages in Dawn not even the front inside page.... They had enough strings to pull the backpage in Dailytimes but is that the only steam money could pull.
Damn not even a decent webpage, one that takes ages to load on Paki lines, I think their launch was for dubai bosses and not for pakistan
I would call it a botched up marketing launch - do u see lines outside to get their service, so much hype and all I only get to see a Full Red Page advert ONLY announcing the agents, no mention of services no mention of the features just one lousy page carrying the name of the al-warid agencies.
well oen of my relative bought it.......
for de next licence, hmmm kon ho sakta hey..........hmmm...
I heard that Vodafone, is next....
Thanks
asssalamo alaykum !
what a post :)
well, vodafone would be welcomed here warmly .... today i.e., on 24th's dawn ... there were more details on the prepaid and post paid accounts!!
seems ok but how often we would switch our mob connections ... updating everyone wuith the new number is in itself a difficult task!!!!!!!!
even mobilink's site is a slower one ........ and sony erricsson's too :)
well , what i liked abt ... warid .... is its ad!!! that is a good one :)
adieu!
The service is fantastic, the rates are cheap and calling Mobilink is cheaper than from a Jazz connection. I think Warid is going to be very successful. I wish they'd make a website, though.
Absolutley rubbish... They could not even able to handle a simple launch... The advertising is crap... The critical thing is the european expereince in cellular business and they got the edge, even US is trying to learn from europe.. I think Telenor will be the market leader in the comming future...
Landed here after a search!
Just got the new sim moments ago...
And now I'm wondering....
Was it really worth 350 rupees??
Heck post some conclusions dude!
is it tru abt warid's satday sunday free, free GPRS,MMS, saudi& dubai local rate calling & other rates????
or its just a rumer plz tell me.
& plz also tell me is there any website of alwarid????
waiting 4ur assistance.....& help bye
hey yasir i bought the connections yaar miss call kay bhi charges lag rahay hain kabhi kabhi ..upar say friends n family wala option abhi tak on nahin ho raha ..though i have heard kay its gona relaunch on 15of this month lets see kya hutahay n one more thing thy havnt yet opened post paids pata nahin shaikh kay pass itna paisa ALLAH nay kyon deeyaa...khair ALLAH HAFIZ
Salaam , greetings everyone.
I wanted to know if anyone was experiencing problems while trying to open waridtel.com site or not?
I'm in California and trying to open this site for a long time now.
I'd appreciate if someone would be able to help with this matter. Thanks. Allah Hafiz
warid is is best communication for al world and poor people of pakistan
warid is is best communication for whole world and poor people of pakistan
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