Vodafone launches New Caller Tunes; steps up entertainment for customers

Press release

Published September 4th, 2013 - 04:46 GMT

Al Bawaba

Vodafone Qatar today announced the launch of its New Caller Tunes service which is now available for customers to entertain their friends with the tune oftheir choice.

Caller tunes are set by each customer and can be heard by anyone calling them whilst they are waiting for the customer to pick up the call.

Customers can set their favourite songs as their ring back tones, and if they subscribe before midnight 3 October 2013, customers will get a one month subscription to their first song for free.

Prepaid and Postpaid customers can choose their favourite hit from a wide range of songs and music categories as well as different languages including Arabic, English, Hindi, Malayalam, and Nepalese.

Customers can call ‘195’ and follow the simple instructions to setup their Caller Tune. Calls to ‘195’ cost 50Dhs/min.The Caller Tunes service costs QR 5/month which includes 1 free song and QR3/month per every additional song.

Cindy Moussa, Director of Marketing said: “With Caller Tunes service, our customers can express themselves, their personality, their mood,their culture and their passion for music. Our customers can also have fun settingdifferent Caller Tunes songsfor different friends and enjoy celebrating special days with selected songs.”

“Caller Tunes is another example of us really listening to our customers and delivering exciting products and services that make a difference for them here in Qatar. Setting up the service is really simple and easy, giving customers an unbeatable experience.

Background Information

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In1998, Vodafone Egypt (Ex Misrfone Telecommunication Company/Click GSM) entered the Egyptian telecom market as the second operator; a consortium between Vodafone international, Air Touch, and local/ international partners. In 1999, Vodafone Group acquired Air Touch share and in 2002, it acquired International Partner VIVENDI France share. In January 2002, Click GSM was rebranded to Vodafone Egypt. Since 2007, Vodafone Egypt’s shareholders structure consisted of Vodafone Group with 54.93% ; Telecom Egypt with 44.94% and a minority free float of 0.13%.