Shahry - Pay Monthly Offer Strongest Value in Qatar Market
Value Packs Offer Exceptional Affordability and Flexibility for Qatar Customers
Widest Possible Range of Payment Options for Qtel Customers
A comparative study of the new price packages available in Qatar’s telecommunications market reveals that Qtel’s Shahry – Pay Monthly offers some of the most attractive pricing and flexibility for customers.
With intense scrutiny being paid to different price plans available in the market, following the launch of a second mobile operator, the news that Qtel’s popular postpaid offering provides the best value confirms Qtel’s ongoing focus on affordability and value.
The study shows that customers using Shahry’s value packs can benefit significantly compared to customers using price plans from other companies in the Qatar market, and even compared to customers for Qtel’s Hala, Qatar’s most-used prepaid service.
Shahry Value packs are personalized plans made up of inclusive local minutes, SMS, MMS and Megabytes (MB) download for which customers pay less than standard Shahry rates.
Adel Al Mutawa, Executive Director of Group Communications, Qtel, said: “Qtel’s continued objective is to provide our customers with convenient value added services, and offering Value Packs for Shahry has proven to deliver real value for our customers. Our heritage as a company has been built upon providing affordability for our customers, and now – through direct comparison with a new entrant in the market – customers can measure the value for themselves.”
Customers using the Hala service who spend more than QR 130 or QR 200 a month will benefit by switching to the more adaptable pay monthly options offered by Shahry Value packs because of the enhanced services they provide. Shahry also offers great value compared to the new Flexi plans available in Qatar.
In particular, the mid-range of Value Packs offers cheaper prices and more usable talk minutes.
Shahry 200 provides 600 call minutes, 60 SMS, 30 MMS and 2MB of Internet downloads. Hala Pay as You Talk customers spending the equivalent amount in the same time period get 300 minutes, 50 local SMS and 16 local MMS. In head-to-head comparison with Flexi 220, Qtel customers pay ten percent less and get 11 percent more minutes, along with a wider range of SMS, MMS and data.
In addition, the Shahry 300 and Shahry 575 Value Packs also offer a range of call minutes (1,000 minutes for Shahry 300 and 2,000 for Shahry 575), SMS (100 for Shahry 300, 200 for Shahry 575), up to 100 MMS and 10 MB of Internet download as part of the respective packages.
One free number also provides additional value for Shahry 300 and Shahry 575 Value Packs, enabling customers to call one number for free for life.
Qtel has also built-in a rollover facility, so that customers can still deploy unused minutes as part of the next month’s allowance. If people exceed their limit, they are charged normal Shahry rates, of QR 0.35 for peak and QR 0.30 off-peak respectively.
The standard Shahry package, which does not have built-in call minutes and 3G services, is still available at the low price of QR50 per month, and customers can pay using cash, credit or direct payment at Qtel shops, Self Service Machines and the online e-Qtel service. If a customer chooses to pay QR 300 up front for a year subscription, this rate decreases to QR 25 per month.
“Our Shahry Value Packs are part of our ongoing campaign to provide the best possible value for customers in Qatar. It’s never been a better time to upgrade to Qtel’s leading postpaid service,” concluded Al Mutawa.
Customers may also opt to change their Shahry Pack subscription free of charge to a lower pack before travelling, for example.
Customers converting from the Hala Pay As You Talk service do not pay a fee for the Shahry packages. Additionally, there are no monthly rental fees, and the connection fee for new account holders has been reduced from QR 150 to only QR50.
