Welcome November, October Recap

Wireless Broadband Services are experiencing new changes every month, sometimes by giving promotions of zero connection charges on non wifi, sometimes reducing USB charges, sometimes changing tariff and GBs limits.

In previous Month (October 2010) Mobilink Infinity sales force showed up with unofficial offers , and they tried to motivate shop keepers to sell devices on 3 months advance payment of xyz package and false claim of unlimited, Infinity has no package offering unlimited in tariff. In pricing Infinity & Wi-tribe looked aggressive in October 2010 , looks like Wi-Tribe and Infinity running out of money to facilitate customers.

Wi-Tribe customers were waiting for Unlimited because QUBEE already have launched Unlimited Downloading package and they started campaign on Print Media , saw few ads on Sunday DAWN and other leading newspapers. Not even Unlimited but normal limited downloading packages are also same on QUBEE new SHUTTLE (USB) which is different from Wi-Tribe and Infinity.

Wi-Tribe is not offering any packages which can compete the comparatively new wireless broadband "QUBEE" , this means wi-tribe is no more in competition? or they are planning big for the market?

Infinity double volume offer is still going on but their pricing is still very aggressive , it's wifi connection charges are 4000? this is too much as compare to QUBEE , they were charging only Rs. 500 connection charges on wifi in October 2010.

Worldcall is not wimax , but its wireless broadband , so no harm in sharing news about them, The News is there was no news from Worldcall, no change in any plans/tariff etc.

Wateen is giving unlimited on USB dongle, although so many complaints about it.

Looks Like honeymoon period is over for WiMax Users

Looks like honeymoon period is over for Wimax users, Wi-Tribe is back with Activation charges. Now Wi-Tribe is charging activation charges , and these charges are non refundable. This step may be taken because of increasing number of churn customers. As a user, I would never like this changing in tariff , but as a part of any net service provider I won't totally go against it. Users usually misuse these special offers where they dont need to pay for activation charges or any other charges at the time of subscription. This gives freedom to customer to not to pay for what he had used previous month. But If you go in depth, there are only few customers who don't like to pay for what they used. Just for those users who will never come back again once you started charging for activation or device charges in starting , this will impact on numbers of signups.
On the other side Qubee the main competitor in WiMax broadband in Karachi, still not charging for Activation or subscription charges. Although Qubee must also be facing churning ratio little bit higher because of not charging any non refundable charges till yet. After Wi-tribe it's more likely that now Qubee will also start charging for subscription(connection or activation) charges and also for Wimax ( WiFi or Non WiFi CPE) . Up till this date (30th June 2010) Qubee is not charging for any activation or any device charges.

(EDIT In OCT2010 : NOW GET QUBEE CONNECTION ONLY ON MONTHLY FEE, Connection Charges Waived on Standard CPE)
(Call - or 021-38662147 for Qubee WiMax tariff Details and Order for New connection)