Caption: Bmobile-Vodafone Group
CEO Sundar Ramamurthy.
By MATTHEW VARI
Sunday, November 2, 2014 (Sunday Chronicle, PNG)
SINCE the inception of mobile purchase of power was introduced in the country in 2007, Bmobile-Vodafone customers have not been able to use such a service.
That is now a thing of the past as the mobile carrier announced it new ‘Get pawa’ service.
The new service is set to address the needs of customers in terms of purchasing electricity not only up to the current limits set by other suppliers of K15 to K50, but customers can also purchase varying amounts up to K500.
“It is an exciting day for us, for the first time since Bmobile was first launched we can now buy electricity on our mobile phones,” said Bmobile-Vodafone Group CEO Sundar Ramamurthy.
“As you know the platform has been available for many years in PNG but not on the Bmobile network.”
“The current restrictions as you know on buying electricity is K15 to K50- we have removed those restrictions so you can buy from K15 to K500.”
He said that the service would help PNG power as well as their customers who want to buy more than K50 for their electricity needs.
“They have to buy multiple times so to solve that we let you buy K100, K200, K300, K400, and K500,” Ramamurthy said.
Payments of electricity will vary from K15 to K30 (K1 service fee), K31 to K50 (K1.50), K51 to K100 (K5), and K101 to K500 (sms PPL to 775 or 76444775 for service rate).
“The fees vary but at the critical end, which is the K15 to K30 which is where 80 percent of transactions occur it is only K1, so it is significantly cheap,” he added.
“Firstly it lets PNG Power address a larger part of the PNG Market, because there are many companies now that want to buy more than K50 and they can do that.”
I would like to thank PNG Power as well as IPBC and the Minister for their support, and our hardworking engineers- they have spent almost 8 months to get this up and running and it is a great move in the right direction.”
When asked why it had taken so long for Bmobile-Vodafone customers to receive the service- the CEO stated a lack of technical injection as an issue for the delay.
“It is a good question as we have only been here for 12 months- we have spent the last 12 months correcting many of the reasons why Bmobile has not been competitive,”
“A lot of the technical pieces in the network were missing, and that is probably the biggest contributor as we have had to put in a lot of technical pieces in place in the network and than you need the right kind of people on board to understand the issues and technically interphase between the two.”
The new service is set to address the needs of customers in terms of purchasing electricity not only up to the current limits set by other suppliers of K15 to K50, but customers can also purchase varying amounts up to K500.
“It is an exciting day for us, for the first time since Bmobile was first launched we can now buy electricity on our mobile phones,” said Bmobile-Vodafone Group CEO Sundar Ramamurthy.
“As you know the platform has been available for many years in PNG but not on the Bmobile network.”
“The current restrictions as you know on buying electricity is K15 to K50- we have removed those restrictions so you can buy from K15 to K500.”
He said that the service would help PNG power as well as their customers who want to buy more than K50 for their electricity needs.
“They have to buy multiple times so to solve that we let you buy K100, K200, K300, K400, and K500,” Ramamurthy said.
Payments of electricity will vary from K15 to K30 (K1 service fee), K31 to K50 (K1.50), K51 to K100 (K5), and K101 to K500 (sms PPL to 775 or 76444775 for service rate).
“The fees vary but at the critical end, which is the K15 to K30 which is where 80 percent of transactions occur it is only K1, so it is significantly cheap,” he added.
“Firstly it lets PNG Power address a larger part of the PNG Market, because there are many companies now that want to buy more than K50 and they can do that.”
I would like to thank PNG Power as well as IPBC and the Minister for their support, and our hardworking engineers- they have spent almost 8 months to get this up and running and it is a great move in the right direction.”
When asked why it had taken so long for Bmobile-Vodafone customers to receive the service- the CEO stated a lack of technical injection as an issue for the delay.
“It is a good question as we have only been here for 12 months- we have spent the last 12 months correcting many of the reasons why Bmobile has not been competitive,”
“A lot of the technical pieces in the network were missing, and that is probably the biggest contributor as we have had to put in a lot of technical pieces in place in the network and than you need the right kind of people on board to understand the issues and technically interphase between the two.”
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