Ufone Increasing UAdvance Amount to 40 Rupees

Ufone will increase UAdvance balance amount to 40Rs from 25th May 2013.

UAdvance service allows Ufone customers to request advance balance.

Service dialling code is *345#

Service charges 5Rs plus taxes. 

Ufone Increasing International SMS Charges to 5 Rupees

Ufone was providing cheapest International SMS charges to any country from Pakistan in 2.50 Rs. But now they have announced increase in the charges of international SMS.

New charges will be same as other networks, 5Rs plus taxes, effective from 25th May 2013. 

This new international charges policy will not effect Ufone international SMS bundle offers. 

Jazz Jazba remains only network with cheapest international SMS rates at 2.50Rs plus taxes. 

Ufone Increasing Balance Checking Charges to 20 Paisas

Ufone have announced that they will increase balance checking charges on *124# 15 paisas to 20 paisas (excluding taxes). 

This new policy will be effective from 25th May 2013.

Viber Android and iPhone Updates and New Windows Desktop Version

Viber have released updates for its Android and iPhone mobile applications. With these mobile updates Viber have also announced Viber Windows and Mac desktop clients.

New Viber mobile updates include:

• Support for all new Viber Desktop on Windows and Mac OS
• Transfer live calls between Viber on mobile and Desktop
• Video messaging
• Improved sound quality for both Wifi and Mobile networks
• Online status indicator for contacts
• In app banner notifications
• Automatic downloading of new received photos
• Caption adding to photos and videos before sending them
• Photo galleries for contacts or groups
• Improved photo features with larger size and large photos thumbnails
• Updated contact information screen
• New stickers
• Several other bug fixes and performance improvements

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SMW4 Cable Repaired: Internet Speeds Coming Back to Normal in Middle East and Pakistan

Updates:

• 10:37 AM - 26 Apr 13 -- @PTCLCares: The Undersea Cable repair work is complete and v are shifting traffc on SMW4. We now hv more than sufficient bandwidth on east and west side (Will take one to two days for full speed restoration)
• 7:06 AM - 26 Apr 13 -- @TH_ServeNET: The link to Europe via Submarine Cable (SMW4) is coming up and taking traffic since 05:00 morning (26 April 2013)
• 3:31 AM - 26 Apr 13 -- Algeria Telecom: End of maintenance of international cable (SMW4), Recovering Traffic.
• 7:00 AM - 23 Apr 13 -- @AaqilsBlog: SMW4 Egypt undersea cable problem: Repair work started on 21st April and repair is expected to completed by 26th April.

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On 27th March Egyptian Naval forces claimed that they had caught divers sabotaging a submarine cable off the coast of Alexandria, Egypt. In any event, SMW4 clearly suffered a major failure caused widespread disruption of Internet services from Egypt to Pakistan.

Several internet and telecom service providers were either degraded or unavailable due to the SMW4 cut off the coast of Alexandria, Egypt. These providers fell back on eastbound transit through the Far East, but those backup paths couldn't provide enough capacity for bandwidth load causing slow or below than slow internet speeds.