Fastlink has launched the Z Line offer, which provides pre-paid card users reduced rates and a fixed tariff throughout the hours of day. The new offer is part of Fastlink’s plans to provide a variety of products that meet the needs of various sectors of society and further spread the mobile service.
Z Line offers special rates to users of the pre-paid card service to enable them to stay in touch with friends and relatives at minimal cost. The offer also enables users to choose three super lines to call at the low rate of 30 fills per minute on Fastlink network and send as many as 100 SMSs for JD2 only.
Fastlink Senior Marketing Manager, Ra’ed Haddadin, said the offer came after a thorough study of the market and was designed to suit the needs of the youth sector. “This group enjoys particular attention by Fastlink as they constitute the larger percentage of our Jordanian society,” added Haddadin.
The offer is available free of monthly subscription fees, and the card user continues to receive calls and messages for the validity of the card, which is one year, even after running out of credit.
Another new product, Z WAP magazine, has been designed to provide entertainment to users and enable them to access a variety of content and services, as well as to download ring tones, games, video programs and screen savers. One free ring tone is promised to users each time they recharge their cards.
Since the start of this year, which marks Fastlink’s 10th anniversary, the Company has introduced a variety of packages and offers at competitive rates targeting wider sectors and groups of society, all as part of a strategy aimed at spreading the mobile service and expand its range of benefits. Haddadin said the remaining months of this year would witness “more services, products and unbeatable surprises.”
Customers who wish to transfer their subscriptions from Easy Link or Razor to Z Line may call (1616) and (1790) to choose the three super numbers.
About Fastlink
Jordan Mobile Telephone Services Company Ltd. “Fastlink”, founded in 1995, was the first operator to introduce mobile phone services into Jordan. In just a few years, the company earned its reputation as the most progressive telecom operator in the region in terms of competitiveness and readiness to adopt new technologies and deploy cutting-edge services. Since its inception, Fastlink has tallied subscriber growth at an exponential rate, with the number of users currently exceeding 1,500 million subscribers. Through more than 1,700 cell sites, Fastlink covers the entire populated area of the Kingdom. In January 2003, Mobile Telecommunications Company K.S.C. (MTC) acquired Fastlink in what was considered the largest single acquisition in the Middle East area, and the largest private sector investment in Jordan.
MTC Group
Mobile Telecommunications Company (MTC) was founded in 1983 and today is one of the largest mobile operators in the Middle East and Africa, with more than 9.5 million customers in Kuwait, Bahrain, Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon and 13 countries in Africa. MTC is listed on the Kuwait Stock Exchange.
In September 2002, MTC entered into a Partner Network Agreement with Vodafone, the world’s leading mobile community, in Kuwait creating MTC Vodafone Kuwait. In 2003 MTC continued its expansion with the acquisition of 96.4% of Fastlink in Jordan.
MTC’s aspiration did not slow down and in 2003 MTC-Vodafone Bahrain was launched with the first 3G/EDGE nationwide network in the world. In 2004 the MTC Atheer service was launched in Southern Iraq, and today covers Baghdad as well.
2004 also witnessed the government of Lebanon handing over the management of one of two mobile networks (Mic2) to the MTC Group, which is known now as mtc touch.
Most recently in March of 2005 MTC acquired Celtel International, a Duch communications network company with major interests in 13 Sub-Saharan African countries, in one of the biggest telecom deals in the Middle East and Africa worth $ 3.36 billion.
MTC Group now operates in 18 countries. With this deal MTC Group has completed its first phase of its 3x3x3 strategy which entails becoming a global operator with more than 15 million customers by 2011. MTC will continue to expand internationally through acquisitions, partnerships and green-field opportunities.
