www.WirelessFederation.com/news: As the holy month of Ramadan progresses, pleasingly different communications provider Nawras continues to offer a host of surprises for its customers.
Nawras has now launched a special international call promotion with vastly reduced call rates available from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. everyday, starting 23 August 2009 and lasting until 23 October 2009. This offer will provide customers who are far away from family and friends a great opportunity to share their many experiences and thoughts this Ramadan and beyond.

In order to allow customers to get closer, Nawras has introduced cheaper call rates for seven of the most popular international destinations: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Indonesia and also Tanzania, where many Omanis still have close family. To give an example of the incredible reduction in prices, customers calling India will pay only 99 Bz per minute for calls during the promotion, which means they will get a lot more talk time for their money. (more…)

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Pleasingly different communications provider Nawras today announced another first for Oman with the launch of its latest innovative offer. During the holy month of Ramadan all Nawras customers will be able to call a Nawras number they choose, such as a close friend or family member, all day from 5 a.m. until 5 p.m. for a one-off daily fee of only RO 2. Once the RO 2 fee is paid for the day all calls to the selected Nawras number will be free until 5pm.
Aziz Al-Harrasi, Consumer Segment Manager, said “this is truly a great offer for Nawras customers. To be able to call a friend or family member on the Nawras network for up to 12 hours per day for only RO 2 is incredible value. For
customers with a lot to say this would equate to only 2.8 Bz per minute! We hope this will be beneficial to families with friends or family members spread across the Sultanate, enabling them to get closer to each other during the holy month of Ramadan.”
Ajel, Postpaid customers simply need to send a free SMS to 90606 listing only the specific Nawras number they are requesting to call as part of the offer. Mousbak, Prepaid customers simply dial *141# followed by language, tariff options, F&F, and then select the Ramadan offer from the available bundles. Customers will receive a SMS message to confirm that the number they have selected has been set-up correctly and that the RO 2 charge has been made to their account. Once confirmation has been received customers will be able to make as many calls as they like to their selected number without any additional cost, until that day’s subscription ends at 5pm. The offer is limited to 1 Nawras number per customer per day, however customers may select a different number to call on each day they subscribe to the promotion. (more…)

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Nawras is celebrating the third anniversary of the successful introduction of mobile number portability (MNP) in the Sultanate.

This service has enabled thousands of new customers to move to Nawras from the other operator while keeping their existing number.

To date the fastest growing family in Oman has welcomed almost nine out of ten porting customers who have chosen to change operator and join the Nawras family so they can enjoy great value, pleasingly different service and excellent quality.

Nawras makes it easy for customers to move as many tens of thousands have already discovered. MNP expanded customer choice and put the Sultanate ahead of almost all other countries in the region.
The service is an important element in a free mobile telecommunications market focused on fair competition.
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www.WirelessFederation.com/news: GLO Mobile, the Nigerian mobile operator has launched international multimedia messaging service (MMS), the first of its kind in Nigeria. The service allows subscribers to exchange MMS with their loved ones in 10 nations across the globe at the cost of N100 only.
The international MMS destinations already covered by the service include Norway, UK, Saudi Arabia, China, Pakistan, Oman, Switzerland, Portugal, Hungary, and  Liechtenstein.

Glo’s head of gateway division, Ibrahim Fadipe said the telecom giant plans to extend the international MMS destinations aggressively in the coming months.

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Omantel, the Oman based mobile operator, has reportedly unveiled five mobile internet packages for its postpaid Mada subscribers. Mada post paid subscribers can opt from five different packages depending on their unique needs. There are twohourly based packages; 10 hour packaged priced at RO5 with unlimited download and the 30 hour package priced at RO10 with unlimited usage. There are also three data based packages which are: 1GB for RO19 with unlimited usage, 15GB for RO34 with unlimited usage and the 30GB package for RO59 with unlimited usage as well.

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www.WirelessFederation.com/news: This award winning, innovative communications provider is ensuring Nawras customers continue to get more with the launch of these pleasingly different, fun and fast ways to get closer to friends and family. The three new creative SMS styles are all priced at the regular great value rates when selecting the MoreSMS bundle.

FutureSMS allows customers to prepare a message for delivering at a later time either on the same day or on a different date. By using a hash sign (#) at the beginning of the text message followed by the time in a 24 hour format, the message would be delivered later the same day. For example, sending a message that starts #2359 would lead to the message being delivered on the same day at one minute ahead of midnight. (more…)

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www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Nawras, the Omani mobile operator, has launched the SmartRoamer service, in cooperation with its parent company QTel. SmartRoamer enables subscribers to enjoy lower tariffs for calling, SMS and data usage when roaming in the GCC countries of Qatar, Kuwait, UAE, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia. The pricing scheme offers a more than 60% rebate on call tariffs, more than 80% on data services and a reduction of over 25% on SMS. The new rates will be applicable to all Nawras subscribers.

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Nawras has introduced a welcome pack with free MMS and Voice SMS messages. The offer lasts till 12th August. The starter package is priced at OMR 2 and includes OMR 2 in airtime credit. Furthermore, each new welcome pack features 100 free MMS & 100 Voice SMS valid for 2 months from the date of Sim activation.

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www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Nawras, the Omani mobile operator has launched MobilKhazana, a SMS service for content from Asia on a monthly subscription basis. For OMR 1, subscribers will get a SMS daily in English on a choice of nine subject categories ranging from food tips and how to be successful by Stephen Covey to memory tips from Harvard Medical School and kitchen tips from Indian chef Sanjeev Kapoor. The subscription lasts for 30 days before being automatically renewed.