All Uninor employees in Bihar and Jharkhand will call customers on 23rd September

Bihar and Jharkhand joins all of Uninor and Telenor Group companies worldwide to celebrate Customer First Day

Uninor also announces its financial break-even in the circle and starts a 3-day roadshow across Bihar and Jharkhand

Patna, September 21, 2013: Each of the 520 Uninor employees in Bihar and Jharkhand will make calls to the company’s subscribers to take feedback on Uninor’s services on September 23^rd. Across Uninor, employees will spend a day at the Uninor Call Centres, interacting with customer service agents and taking subscriber calls; go into the market to meet retailers and interact with customers and also offer surprise deals on all purchases at the Uninor stores. Employees of Bihar and Jharkhand join their Uninor colleagues across India and the over 30,000 Telenor Group colleagues across the world to celebrate the Customer First Day on September 23^rd.

In Patna to announce this initiative, the company’s CEO Yogesh Malik also announced that Uninor has achieved profitability in its Bihar and Jharkhand operations. This is a significant achievement since Uninor offers the lowest tariffs in a circle that also has among the lowest ARPUs in India.

“We are proud of this accomplishment. While many wrongly assume that a low ARPU market makes for a difficult business case, we have proven that a mobile operator can serve the mass market with basic services and affordable tariffs, and yet achieve profitability. Sabse Sasta is a commitment from Uninor and Sabse Sasta will continue,” said Yogesh Malik.

Uninor serves 4.3 million subscribers with a network of 2442 sites and 50,000 points of sale in Bihar and Jharkhand.

Special offers to celebrate Customer First Day

As a part of the Customer First Day celebrations, Uninor has also launched a variety of new offers. Some of these include free unlimited internet for 7 days with every recharge of Rs. 100 and above. On a recharge of Rs 551, customer gets 50 STD minutes Free at Uninor shops and 5 % extra every time he recharges for a year with enrolment under Uninor Advantage Club from Uninor exclusive stores.

“This is the most important day of the year for Uninor. After all, we exist because of our customers. This year on the Customer First Day, Uninor employees in Bihar and Jharkhand will call or meet subscribers and visit retail shops,” said AEA Jameel, Circle Business Head for Bihar and Jharkhand. “Break-even is only a milestone. Our intention is to go far deeper and wider in Bihar and Jharkhand with Uninor’s Sabse Sasta services,” he added.

320 km road show led by the Uninor CEO

Uninor’s CEO, Yogesh Malik also began a 3 day road show across towns and villages of Bihar & Jharkhand. The team will cover a distance of close to 320 kilometers; starting at Patna and travelling to Bodhgaya and Ranchi – and several villages that fall en-route. During this road-show, Uninor team will meet its customers, retail and distribution partners and employees in various locations.

“This is the way Uninor works. It is our responsibility to go where our customers and retail partners are – understand what they need from Uninor and ensure we meet their expectations. For us every customer matters and customer satisfaction is the priority,” said AEA Jameel.

Uninor Daud to be flagged off at Gandhi Maidan in Patna

As a part of Uninor’s 3-day road show to the towns and villages of Bihar & Jharkhand, the company’s CEO along with the Circle Business Head A.E.A Jameel will flag off the Uninor Daud. With more than 1000 participants registering – this qualifies to be one of the biggest sporting event of this nature in the region.  The Uninor Run will take place at Gandhi Maidan in Patna on 22nd of Sep’13 at 6 am and will cover a route of over 3 kilometers. Participants across all age groups can join the run, as it is intended to create awareness on healthy living and perseverance.

“This run is not about Uninor, our business or our products. This is simply a way to encourage the people of the city to make an active effort towards healthy living and make positive changes to their daily lives,” said Yogesh Malik, CEO of Uninor.

About Uninor:

Uninor is majority owned subsidiary of Telenor Group – one of the major mobile operators with headquarters in Oslo, Norway.  Uninor’s cellular service are commercially available in the six circles of UP (West), UP (East), Bihar (including Jharkhand), Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and Gujarat.

Together, these circles account for more than 50% of India’s population giving Uninor the ability to serve every second person in India.

Uninor is a young operator that focuses on the mass market serving over 32.7 million customers. Uninor’s innovative products and services empower customers to enjoy the benefits of mobile telephony through its simple price proposition of - ’sabse sasta’ (lowest) tariffs for all basic services. The company is committed to profitable growth in this highly price sensitive and competitive market.  Uninor achieved break-even in the two circles of UP East and Gujarat – the fastest by any mobile operator in India. For more information, please visit http://uninor.in

About Telenor Group:

Telenor Group is an international provider of tele, data and media communication services. Telenor Group has mobile operations in 12 markets in the Nordic region, Central and Eastern Europe and in Asia, as well as a voting stake of 42.95 per cent (economic stake 33 per cent) in VimpelCom Ltd., operating in 17 markets. Headquartered in Norway, Telenor Group is one of the world’s major mobile operators with more than 150 million mobile subscriptions in its consolidated operations per Q2 2013, revenues in 2012 of NOK 102 billion, and a workforce of nearly 34,000. For more information about Telenor Group, please visit www.telenor.com

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For further information please contact

Payal Gupta: Uninor, Tel: +91 91221 12234

Email: payal.gupta@uninor.in

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Mobile top up, recharge plans, top up offers – all can be now accessed from your phone itself!

Not only these – with the launch of the all new Uninor mobile web site, most of the offered mobile services by the 6-circle Indian telecom company will now be available on the subscribers’ fingertips. Get ready for yet another mobile innovation with the brand new Uninor mobile site.

Imagine you’re travelling to your college and suddenly realise that you have run out of balance. You can’t miss the first lecture and getting balance is necessary. To add to the chaos, you do not have a laptop or an internet dongle also so you could recharge online while on the move. All you have is an activated internet plan on your Uninor network and a debit card.

Simple – log on to the new mobile web site, check out the recharge plans and the top up offers (just in case you are curious about any new killer top up offer which the updated site might have) and finally get your desired mobile top up! Case closed – you’re the supercool dude/dudette!

Now imagine you’re the alpha male of the college and you just got to know that the first look of Sunny Leone’s new Bollywood movie has just been released (it’s good to be specific that it’s a normal Bollywood Movie). You’ve got to get that movie wallpaper before anyone in the class! What do you do?

You’re absolutely on hundred per cent right! Log on to the new mobile web site, check out the Walpaper download section and BOOM – you’ve got your favourite wallpaper on your screen in a minute!

The recently introduced all new mobile site which promises even more mobile services that would make life very easy for you. The sections include almost all the sections that comprise the main web site of Uninor, including instant mobile recharge. Other value added mobile services such as Bollywood songs, mobile games, etc can also be accessed from the mobile web site, and this allows you to direct install all of these into your phone.

The functionality of the mobile site is pretty basic and smooth. It is designed keeping in mind that it should be easy to navigate through, rather than flashy and complicated. After all, it’s a service website and its basic aim is to let the subscriber browse through services easily and quickly.

Celebrate “Free Internet Day” with Uninor’s special offer

Here is the biggest announcement made by Uninor for its Andhra Pradesh subscribers. Uninor initiate “free internet service” for its users especially for those who are residing in Andhra Pradesh. This facility upholds free and unlimited surfing, downloading, chatting and social media.

This exciting offer is made to get applicable on September 9, 2013 which is also recalled as “Free Internet Day”. Subscribers can enjoy this special offer right from Midnight to 8PM of the day. After the day, the regular GPRS charges will be applicable on the usage.

While launching this exciting plan, Uninor’s Circle business head comment on the affordability offered by Uninor in terms of voice and SMS tariffs. Uninor acts as the most affordable operator that excels in offering cheapest online recharge. Along with the reasonable calls support, Uninor has also gained enormous popularity in terms of cheapest internet plans.

Uninor customers can now subscribe for the most affordable GPRS plan suiting to their needs. Subscribers can pick desired internet data from the collectibles of retail stores.  Also, customers can purchase the internet plan from the online store as well.

So, subscribers are liberated to avail of free internet offer on September 9 and thereafter too with economical tariffs introduced by Uninor. 

When the rupee drops, one prepaid mobile service finds the answer – gold!

In this unsure and unstable economy, how can having a connection from Uninor cellular service help you? Apart from UNLIMITED FUN & MASTI, Uninor subscribers can win Gold & cash by SMSing on 533355.

Uninor is all about more value-for money propositions. Whether in their “Sabse sasta, sabse sasta” brand promise, or the phone service, or the offers and prepaid plans, online recharge, or their limited period and 

special offers – the whole Uninor bouquet screams out VALUE FOR MONEY.

But this time, they Uninor have pushed the envelope much farther than any cellular service operator. They are actually giving away gold in the new SMS-based contest.

BANGARAM BONANZA

Introducing the BANGARAM BONANZA!

All you have to do to participate in the contest is SMS GOLD to 533355, and if you’re one of the lucky winners, you may win 20g Gold as the 1^st Winner, or ten thousand rupees as the 2^nd Winner, or five thousand rupees as the 3^rd Winner.

That’s as good as a prepaid mobile service offer will ever get!

Also you can SMS to 533355 for more fun & masti.

SMS plans: text your heart’s content

Uninor brings easy to avail SMS packs for the users. Like, users can avail of the benefit of 50 local and national SMS with a mere expense of Rs.13 and also 100 local and National SMS per day with an easy online recharge of Rs. 46. Isn’t that too low?  

                                                          SMS packs

Get amazing connectivity with Uninor’s exclusive plans

In today’s modern world, everyone wants an uninterrupted connectivity with their friends, social groups and business associates. The connections can take form of unlimited calls; SMS’s and even uninterrupted internet.  For all such requirement, Uninor initiates some full proof solutions which are affordable and effective also.

Easy online recharge 

Uninor being the people’s telecom company brings such effective and cheap plans which serve the above mentioned needs by sticking to the brand philosophy “Sabse sasta, sabse acha”. Whether the need is related to talk time offers, STD packs, roaming packs, SMS plans or even GPRS plans, Uninor has fulfilled its promise.

Along with the above, Uninor has also initiated some exclusive deals like extra talk time offers and full talk time offers. Also, the company has introduced online recharge concept to provide the needed convenience to the subscribers. The consumer could easily select the desired package from the list mentioned on the company’s websites and get the online mobile recharge with the respective deal.

With easy online recharge mode and affordable recharge offers, the subscriber can enjoy great connectivity with his loved ones. Let’s explore some exclusive offers or plans introduced by Uninor.

Get avail of online mobile recharge-the quick and convenient recharge mode

Online mobile recharge appears as a boon to those consumers who want to get rid of those long queues of offline recharges. With the facility of recharging the mobile phones online, the consumers could refill their mobile phones within no time and without any hassle.

 Recharge offers

To get the online recharge on your mobile phone, you need not to input any efforts like moving to the side shop of you area and ask for the most suitable recharge option, etc. rather, you can choose the best suited option form the varied one available over the websites and get the best for yourself. Also, the recharging process is quite easy to follow which allow easy and convenient recharge facility with the aid of few clicks.

When it comes to the choice made between the best recharge plans, the consumers could avail of the varied recharge offers available over the service providing websites. They can detail out every offer and make the selection for the best one as per their needs and requirements. The online recharge allows the consumers to get the desirable talk time anytime of the day irrespective of the location. The consumers are not bound by the availability of any particular recharge outlet rather they can get the refilling of their mobile done within minutes with the support of online stores and uninterrupted internet connection.

Thus, if you want to refill your mobile phone and want to have the desired talk time, simply make yourself attached with the online recharge facility and recharge your mobile.