Zong’s M9 receives rousing welcome

STAFF REPORT ISLAMABAD: Zong’s brand “M9 – What is your plan?” has been successful in creating its niche in the immensely saturated market, magnetizing hundreds of thousands of customers on its network with its unique offer that provide customers a freedom to plan their own packages.

According to the official data, the new brand has witnessed the requests of more than 0.3 million online number registrations in just 15 days since it opened booking of numbers on December 30. This showed the average booking rate 2,000 per day in the period.

The data says that the brand’s catchy advertisements have created persuasive hype among the masses, who click the web-portal as its address was made public in the full commercial advert.

The M9 web-portal, which was exclusively developed for numbers’ booking, received overwhelming response and was visited by 275,000 users on the first day, reveals an official of the company.

He said that the capacity of the portal has been enhanced subsequently to facilitate huge number of expected visitors, and added that the Facebook fan page of the brand has garnered more than 5,000 people in first two days. No, the number of fans have now reached 17,500 mark. Facebook fan page of M9 is holding different competitions for its members. The winners will be receiving scratch cards, iPod Nano and other giveaways.

The Zong’s official is very confident over the success of M9 as the customers responses towards service have been increasing with each passing days.

The M9 brand will enhance the subscribers’ base of Zong as every customers have to buy a new SIM in order to get self-designed tariff plan.

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