October 03, 2008 04:00

Communication in Hadj Visit is Provided by Türk Telekom

Published under Personal > Products and Services, About TT > Press Bulletin

Türk Telekom developed a new service for Hadj and Ümre visiters to talk with Turkey cheaper. Prepaid minutes telephone card “HadjCard” enables our hadjis to contact with their families in Turkey in a cheaper way, besides they can call each other in the same manner.

Turkey ‘s telecommunication giant Türk Telekom offers a new service for hadj candidates to be used in Hadj and Ümre visits. Prepaid minutes telephone card HadjCard provides a cheaper way to call Turkey from Saudi Arabia, besides calls in SaudiArabia among each other shall be in the same manner.

HadjCard is developed by the cooperation between Türk Telekom and Al Jawal GSM operator in Saudi Arabia, owned by Türk Telekom.

Within the opportunity of Hadjcard application under the security of Türk Telekom, Turkish Hadj and Ümre visiters shall be given prepaid minutes cards of Saudi Arabia GSM operator Al-Jawal company, to be used in Saudi Arabia. These cards which shall be delivered to our Hadjis who wish to utilize this service shall contain 40 prepaid minutes and shall operate when they arrive in SaudiArabia.

Thus Hadj candidates can contact either their family members in Turkey or the customers of other operators in Saudi Arabia.When the initial prepaid minutes are consumed, additional prepaid minutes can be purchased from Al Jawal dealers in Saudi Arabia. Loading prepaid minutes to the device sahll be provided by menu in Turkish.

Users of HadJCard can determine two numbers in Saudi Arabia and one number in Turkey to call them on a %25 discounted rate and compared to other operators they will reach the opportunity to call on discounted rates reaching up to 94%.