Fastlink has introduced new prepaid cards that bear photos of renowned football players such as Ronaldino, Zaidan, Beckham and others to reflect the spirit of the World Cup tournaments.
“Fastlink has taken this step as the World Cup tournaments will kick off soon,” said Fastlink’s marketing manager Mr. Maher Al Harriri, noting that they are extremely popular in the country. He added that Fastlink has launched an array of offers in cooperation with ART for subscribers so that they can watch a live broadcast of the world’s biggest sports event.
Fastlink, one of MTC companies, provided subscribers with a one -year ART subscription that costs JD 198. Of these, 35 dinars will be paid back to customers with an average of JD 5 on their monthly bills . And prepaid card users will have an extra balance with a value of JD 5.
The Fastlink offer is the only package that includes the European sports channels, ART and all the World Cup channels.
The company has also launched a challenging competition that asks subscribers to predict the name of the winner ahead of each game. Fastlink will provide subscribers with a daily schedule of the world cup tournaments. A weekly draw will take place, and winners will be presented with 60 Sony Ericsson mobiles. The grand prize includes two licensed and customs paid cars model Audi TT 2006.
Subscribers who wish to participate in the competition can dial 96000 with the word winner in English or Rabeh in Arabic in order to become eligible for the draw and win prizes. The competition starts on June 9 with the World Cup Tournaments.
Fastlink has the widest customer base in the Kingdom with well over 2 million subscribers. The company has also launched a number of info services that were considered a qualitative leap in the mobile phone industry. These include Live Video Streaming service which provides live broadcast to several satellite channels, in addition to an array of other services and offers that cater for all segments of society.
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 2 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.
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About MTC Group
Mobile Telecommunications Company (MTC), the fastest growing mobile operator in the Middle East and Africa pioneered mobile services in the region. We began life in 1983 in Kuwait as the region’s first mobile operator, and since the initiation of our “3x3x3” expansion strategy in 2002, we have expanded rapidly.
As a leading mobile and data services operator in five Middle Eastern and 13 sub-Saharan African countries with 7000 employees, we provide a comprehensive range of mobile voice and data services to over 15 million individual and business customers.
We operate in Kuwait and Bahrain as mtc-vodafone, in Jordan as Fastlink, in Iraq as mtc atheer, in Lebanon as mtc touch, in Sudan as Mobitel and in 13 sub-Saharan countries in Africa as Celtel: Burkina Faso, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Kenya, Malawi, Niger, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia and most recently Madagascar.
Listed on the Kuwait Stock Exchange (Code; Tele), MTC’s market capitalization exceeded US$12 billion as of April 1st 2006. For more visit: www.mtctelecom.com
