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Etisalat introduces E-Top up (Electronic Top up) E-top up is a service that enables direct top up of Etisalat lines with prepaid airtime of all values between N50 – N50,000 including recharge of irregular amounts such as 51, 52, 53, 54, 55….up till 49,999 that do not exist in recharge card denominations. Recharge is done without the use of PINs or recharge numbers obtained from scratch recharge cards. The benefits of E-Top up to Etisalat Subscribers are: Convenience of recharge, no scratching of cards or input of long recharge numbers Availability of airtime is enhanced by extensive reach of retailers Airtime is available 24 hours a day and 7 days a week Flexibility of recharge value – all amounts between N50 and N50,000 can be recharged Airtime can be sent to friends, family and associates from any location How E-Top up is obtained: Locate any E-Top up channel (see below) Provide the amount to be purchased Provide Etisalat phone number Recharge is sent to phone immediately Available E-Top up channels: Etisalat experience centres (Shops) Distribution Partner outlets

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Etisalat introduces E-Top up (Electronic Top up)

E-top up is a service that enables direct top up of Etisalat lines with prepaid airtime of all values between N50 – N50,000 including recharge of irregular amounts such as 51, 52, 53, 54, 55….up till 49,999 that do not exist in recharge card denominations. Recharge is done without the use of PINs or recharge numbers obtained from scratch recharge cards.

The benefits of E-Top up to Etisalat Subscribers are:

Convenience of recharge, no scratching of cards or input of long recharge numbers

Availability of airtime is enhanced by extensive reach of retailers

Airtime is available 24 hours a day and 7 days a week

Flexibility of recharge value – all amounts between N50 and N50,000 can be recharged

Airtime can be sent to friends, family and associates from any location

How E-Top up is obtained:

Locate any E-Top up channel (see below)

Provide the amount to be purchased

Provide Etisalat phone number

Recharge is sent to phone immediately

Available E-Top up channels:

Etisalat experience centres (Shops)

Distribution Partner outlets

Sub Dealer outlets

Retail outlets

Umbrella /business centres

Airtime vendors

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To become a reseller of E-Top up, simply visit the nearest Distribution Partner or Sub dealer outlets with ANY Etisalat line, get registered and start selling immediately.

Benefits

Distributors

An additional revenue source for the migrant sector customers you currently serve

A service differentiator to set you apart from other vendors serving the migrant segment

A useful offering that helps you retain existing customers and attract new ones

Financial Institutions

An additional revenue source for the migrant sector customers you currently serve

A service differentiator to set you apart from other financial institutions serving the migrant segment

A useful offering that helps you retain existing customers and attract new ones

A first-step intro into offering mobile commerce services

Consumers

A meaningful gift to help friends and family back home stay in touch in touch with you, especially during festive season.

A fast, practical and affordable way to provide some form of financial assistance to loved ones

ransfer™ is a global prepaid airtime system that allows service providers to offer their subscribers a real-time, international airtime transfer service from one country to another.

Here's how it works. The sender requests the service through SMS, USSD, IVR or Web, and airtime will be transferred from their prepaid account to the beneficiary's mobile phone account overseas.

Both the sender and beneficiary will be notified on the status of the transaction via SMS.

ransfer™ is a global prepaid airtime system that allows service providers to offer their subscribers a real-time, international airtime transfer service from one country to another.

Here's how it works. The sender requests the service through SMS, USSD, IVR or Web, and airtime will be transferred from their prepaid account to the beneficiary's mobile phone account overseas.

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Both the sender and beneficiary will be notified on the status of the transaction via SMS.

What?

WHY?

How to use ?

Reseller?

Testimonial

Contact us

Additional Information about International Mobile Topups

Do you want to top-up phone of your family back home? Now you can! By International mobile topups.

Travelling abroad? We’ve got you covered!

Sending mobile phone credit is easy, fast and safe.

Topup is applied instantly to the mobile account provided.

No pin is required.

Earned reward points in each purchase.

24 / 7 online access.

Mobile refills available for many international destinations and we're adding more all the time!

Register and start saving today!

How To Topup Phones of your Friends and Family Back Home:

Find your International Topup country and operator.

Click on BUY NOW, enter Recipient Name, Phone number without country code, and select the dollar amount that you want to topup.

Click on BUY NOW button. Your topup operator will add into the shopping cart.

If you want to buy more topups, click on continue shopping otherwise PROCEED TO CHECK OUT.

New customers, click on REGISTER NOW and complete all the information and click REGISTER ME, and follow the steps.

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Existing customers, please SIGN IN with your login credentials.

Check your order summary and proceed with your order by SUBMIT ORDER.

After successful order submission, the instant credit will be given into your recipient phone and a confirmation email will be send to you.

Home, about us, terms of service, how to

It’s easy and simple:

Sign up by completing the Sign Up form.

Activate your easy.com.bd account by clicking the validation e-mail sent to your e-mail address.

Log in.

Enter amount and other details.

Receive Top-Up in your mobile.

The top-up amount will be debited from your bank account and credited to your mobile. You will receive an electronic invoice for the top-up purchase in your e-mail address.

benefits of postpaid packages

lowest call charges

1 second pulse

up to 4 fnf to any mobile operator with a very low tariff

20% bonus on incoming calls

up to 15% monthly loyalty discount on airtime

up to 2 supplementary connection with very low group talk rate

low monthly line rent, which is waived based on usage

hassle free bill payment through i’ top up

gprs and mms service

international roaming

international sms

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smart services like amar tune, power menu, missed call alert, news alert, yellow pages, and many more

key highlights of banglalink postpaid

banglalink postpaid is a standard postpaid package with local, nwd and isd connectivity. it offers very attractive call rates, a range of packages and value added services designed to make your life simpler.

dedicated customer care line:

121 is a dedicated customer care line number which cateres to all your inquiries round the clock.

1 second pulse:

reduce your expenses further with the 1 second pulse facility to other banglalink numbers. so your bill will be exactly according to your usage

bonus on incoming:

banglalink is the only operator that offers bonus on incoming for postpaid connections. enjoy 20% bonus minutes and sms on your total incoming calls.

international sms:

you can send sms to mobiles within bangladesh as well as around the world.

free voice mail retrieval:

with banglalink postpaid your voice mail retrieval is absolutely free.

packages and call charges

banglalink postpaid package 1 offers you:

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exemption of line rent if your bill exceeds tk 500

duplicate dial: you can keep the last 6 digits of your existing number same when taking a banglalink postpaid connection

free 10 mb gprs every month

free missed call alert service

tk. 100 discount in 2 bill cycle (tk. 50 each)

free 100 sms with the new connection

free dedicated customer care line (121)

supplementary connection:

all subscribers of postpaid package 1 can avail two supplementary connections with low connection fees, reduced monthly fees and attractive group call & sms rates

special group talk rate of tk. 0.25/min and tk. 0.25/sms between the 3 connections (including the original connection)

postpaid package 1 and its attractive call charges and other facilities are applicable

call & control package offers you:

option to recharge through scratch card/i’top-up

an easy solution to track of your monthly expenditure

special loyalty discount program

postpaid package 1 supplementary connection call & control

line rent tk. 100 - -

minimum commitment - tk. 50 -

outgoing call charges to banglalink numbers

9am - 5pm tk. 0.99/min tk. 0.99/min tk. 0.99/min

5pm - 12am tk. 1.25/min tk. 1.25/min tk. 1.25/min

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12am - 9am tk. 0.45/min tk. 0.45/min tk. 0.45/min

outgoing call charges to other operators

9am - 5pm tk. 0.99/min tk. 0.99/min tk. 0.99/min

5pm - 12am tk. 1.25/min tk. 1.25/min tk. 1.25/min

12am - 9am tk. 0.99/min tk. 0.99/min tk. 0.99/min

fnf rates

number of fnf 4 4 3

24 hours call charge to banglalink fnf tk. 0.45/min tk. 0.45/min tk. 0.45/min

24 hours call charge to other operators’ fnf tk. 0.79/min tk. 0.79/min tk. 0.79/min

sms rates

sms rates to banglalink and other numbers tk. 0.50/sms tk. 0.50/sms tk. 0.50/sms

sms rates to fnf numbers tk. 0.50/sms tk. 0.50/sms tk. 0.50/sms

pulse

to banglalink numbers (excluding fnf) 1 sec 1 sec 1 sec

to other operators numbers (excluding fnf) 30/30/15 sec 30/30/15 sec 30/15/15 sec

to fnf 60 sec 60 sec 60 sec

vat & conditions applicable

fnf

with banglalink postpaid package you can enjoy talking at a much lower call rate to your fnf numbers from any mobile operator.

loyalty discount

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you can reduce your mobile expenses through our loyalty discount program. the monthly loyalty discount amount is calculated based on your length of stay with banglalink and usage per month as shown the following table:

length of stay with banglalink monthly outgoing voice calls (excluding btcl charge, roaming and vat)

tk. 401 - 1500 tk. 1501 - 3000 tk. 3001 +

more than 2 years 10% 12% 15%

less than 2 years, more than 1 year 8% 10% 12%

less than 1 year 7% 8% 10%

this means the longer you have stayed with banglalink, the more discount you will receive. the loyalty discount is our way of expressing gratitude toward you, because your loyalty means that banglalink is your preferred and trusted mobile operator.

a customer’s length of stay with banglalink will be calculated starting from the date of activation of service with banglalink.

for postpaid package 1 customers, the discount amount will be adjusted with their monthly bill.

for postpaid call & control customers, an amount equivalent to the discount will be uploaded every month to their accounts.

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With the user base for telecom and DTH subscribers growing leaps and bounds, a number of third party recharge players are trying to tap into the market. What is the business all about?

Imagine you reach home late at night after a long day at work. Suddenly you realize that you have to make an urgent call and you have run out of cash balance.

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What do you do? Cut to another situation. Your monthly DTH recharge has exhausted and you do not want to make the effort of going all the way to a recharge shop to top-up your account. What do you do? Well, there is a simple solution to both these problems: simply log on to a third party recharge website and recharge your mobile or DTH account within minutes. And that too at the convenience of your home! Could this be a potential business opportunity for many? In this article, DARE focuses on the nitty-gritty of entering doing such a business.

How big is the market?

The telecom industry in India is growing at breakneck speed, and the majority of the growth is contributed by the wireless or mobile segment. In July 2009, TRAI estimated India’s tele-density to be 41.08 with the total telephone subscriber base reported to be 479.04 million. Of this, while the wireline base was just 37.41 million, wireless subscription (including GSM, CDMA and FWP) accounted for 441.66 million connections. What is even more interesting is that a majority of the wireless connections, almost 90% of them are prepaid. Given an ARPU of around Rs 200, we can assume that an average recharge is Rs 200 per month, or Rs 2400 per year. Based on these numbers, the recharge industry size works out to be approximately Rs 9600 crore per year.

Talking of DTH, though the number of players in this sector are few, they are also reportedly expanding at 35-40%. India’s TV viewership is believed to be the second highest in the world and is expected to swell up to 35-40 million by 2012. The installed base of DTH is very small compared to this number. So, this space also remains mostly untapped and could offer a big opportunity to third party recharge players.The Industry Landscape

Mobile connections in India 441.66 million

Prepaid connections (90%) 397.49 million

Average recharge per month per personRs. 200

Average recharge annually per person Rs. 2400

Total Recharge Industry Rs. 9600 crore

Business models

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The recharge market in India is vast and is on the lookout for new channels to expand. Currently, the market can be broadly split into two – offline and online. The offline sector is dominated by scratch cards that are distributed by telecom players and sold through retail outlets ranging from cellphone sales and repair shops to the more generic pan shops. On the other hand, the online recharge business is serviced by several channels – the service providers through their own websites and recharge through ATMs have been the traditional methods here. Third party recharge players such as Rechargeitnow.com, Fastrecharge.com and Onestoprecharge.com are the new entrants in the fray.

Today, in one family there are several mobile connections, and often a younger member of the family goes out to get the recharges done. We ease this process by providing a single platform having recharge options of all telecom players and at the convenience of their homes

Sharat Jain

President & Co-Founder, Online Recharge Services

Currently, the market is dominated by recharge cards than by e-recharges. The scratch card segment works through a PIN recharge model, wherein a telecom service provider sells a 16 digit PIN to the user through the scratch cards. For this, a number of background processes take place at the service provider's end including the generation and scrambling of the 16 digit PIN, printing it and then the customer (or more usually the retailer) SMSes the code to the service provider to recharge the customers account.

Typically, each service provider has multiple recharge plans (usually 5 or more) running at any time and each telcom circle has about 5 players. So, a retailer has to stock 25-30 different varieties of scratch cards. In practice, the retailer stocks only the more popular plans and sometimes is even selective about the service provider. So, a given retailer may actually stock under 10 different recharge options.

The margins in the recharge business is wafer thin, with the retailer earning between 3-3.5% margins and the distributor earning 1%. There is no concept of wholesaler in this business. For most retailers, recharge cards are top-up income or at best help draw customers who may also buy something else from him. More money is to be made from activation (selling a new prepaid SIM card to a customer and activating his number) than from selling a recharge coupon. The online recharge model does away with

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the retailer—if the third party recharge player is large enough to deal directly with the telecom service provider or acts as the retailer, buying inventory from a distributor.

How does a third Party Recharge model work?

Of late, several vendors have entered this space and have started providing recharge options to customers. There are several reasons behind this. From the point of view of consumers, this option offers convenience. According to Sharat Jain, President and Co-Founder of Online Recharge Services, the promoter of Rechargeitnow.com, “Today, in one family itself there are several mobile connections of different telecom service providers. Often the younger member of the family goes out to get the recharges done. We ease this process by providing all the recharge options of all telecom players on a single platform and at the convenience of their homes. Moreover, the expertise of the telecom service provider is to provide service rather than selling recharge coupons. So this feature is even difficult to find on most service providers’ websites”.

Since the user interface of these players is a website, the target audience is mostly urban population. Defining the target audience base further, only those with easy internet access as well as those who feel comfortable purchasing online are currently customers to this service. According to a study conducted by the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) and IMRB International, India had an estimated 45.3 million ‘active’ Internet users as on September 2008, of whom 42 million were from the urban areas. This could as well be the potential customer base for an online third party recharge player. There are some moves by the online players to dramatically increase their target base. More about that later.

Recharges can be done in two ways, either by getting a sixteen digit PIN of the service provider or through flexi-recharge. These websites also tie up with several payment gateways, net banking services for money transactions.

Says Sharat Jain, “For telecom players, revenues through online recharge is a very small part of their total revenue. Therefore, often it becomes difficult for consumers to understand how their website works, what are the latest schemes and finally how to get the recharge done. Therefore, we created a simple website with the recharge options upfront for user convenience.” However, for a third party vendor this could prove to be a difficult task. There are 28 telecom circles in India and an average of 5 players in each circle. Now assuming even five schemes are live at any given point of time, that means a e-recharge player has to not only provide 700 new recharge options, but also track changes to them constantly. In reality, according to Jain of rechargeitnow.com, they have people in the team who constantly interact with all telecom service providers at the circle level to track changes to the plans. Even then, they update plans on their website on a weekly basis only.

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Anybody who wants to recharge online can simply log on to these websites, create a one-time login ID, get their mobile number verified and recharge their accounts within minutes. Explains Ahamed Ansari of Fastrecharge.com, “When a customer requests for a recharge, our system purchases the recharge voucher from the service provider and sends the voucher to the customer through SMS or direct top-up of customer mobile.”

Rechargeitnow follows a similar model. They maintain an account with each of the service providers at the circle level. When a customer pays for a recharge at their site, they pay for it from their account with the appropriate service provider-circle and recharge the customers mobile number. The account with the service provider is reconciled on a daily basis.

What is the revenue model?

So how do these players make money? These players either deal with the telecom players directly or through aggregators. Similar is the case with DTH services. Whenever a customer comes to the site for a recharge, the telecom service provider pays up to an average of 4% of the recharge amount to the third party vendors.DTH Players

Tata Sky

Sun Direct TV

Airtel Digital TV

Dish TV

Reliance Big TV

The recharge vendor has to pay about 3% to the payment gateway provider. That typically leaves the recharge player with a 1 % margin, from which all their costs including technology costs have to be met. And that makes this a volume game. Of course, these percentages are negotiable, given volumes and relationships with payment gateways and service providers.

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Some players have incorporated other revenue channels for increasing their margins. One way is to charge a transaction or convenience fee like IRCTC does. For example, Fastrecharge.com and Onestoprecharge.com charges an Internet service charge of 11% and 4% respectively to its customers. Another revenue source (albeit a minor one) could be Internet advertising.

Some Challenges

There are several challenges that this segment of the industry faces. One, establishing a relation with the telecom players is a hard nut to crack. This is because these players already have a fairly good distribution network for scratch cards. Two, since this sector is dependent on technology, it needs constant upgradation. Security of online transactions is another critical factor. Managing dealings with payment gateways require constant monitoring and reconciliation. Automated systems that can do this become the norm for large volumes. You also need an efficient redressal system to deal with customers who pays for a recharge but whose recharge does not happen. Rechargeitnow, for example says that they try to keep this down by doing an automatic credit back if a recharge is not successful at the service provider end – that is, if their systems do not get an acknowledgment from the service providers’ systems of a successful recharge.

Like we briefly discussed earlier, another way could be to increase the target audience by introducing new channels or aggressively adopting existing channels to your business. One of the limitations for the online recharge business has been the limiting of their target audience to the urban population with easy Internet access. On the other hand, large volumes of recharge users become part of your target if you include rural and those with no internet access. The route to this of course is the huge mass of retailers who deal with paper based recharge coupons.

One way of doing it is similar to what IRCTC has done - enable existing resellers (agents in the case of IRCTC) to use your platform and add that to your business. For e-recharge, the online recharge player has to first create an e-wallet for the retailer who then recharges against the balance available in his wallet. An e-wallet is a virtual wallet, i.e. a retailer has to credit his e-wallet account in advance and recharges done gets debited against that, much like a debit card. For the retailer, now, recargeitnow is working on a mobile application that can run on any Java enabled cell phone and can be used to recharge for all service providers from the same cell phone.

Conclusion

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It is early days still for the business of online recharge. The number of players is still small. The potential market size is huge, but the margins are wafer thin. The winners will be not just the ones who achieve scale and efficiencies of operation which are given, but the ones who are able to break through the clutter and add new income sources or payment options like micro payments to their existing platforms.

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In a prepaid mobile phone, topping-up or reloading is needed to further enjoy the services offered by the operator. There are a lot of options on how to reload a prepaid mobile phone. The most popular process is through purchasing a prepaid card but due to security precautions, electronic reloading was developed.Contents [hide]

1 Development

2 Benefits

2.1 Security

2.2 Cost-effective

2.3 Convenience

3 Channels of reloading

3.1 Reloading Stations

3.2 Load transfer

3.3 Reward Points

3.4 Automated Teller Machines

3.5 Other subscriptions

4 Trivia

5 References

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Development

The technology of electronic reloading was first introduced in the Philippines by Smart Communications branding the service as SmartLoad and considered to be the world's first electronic reloading service.[1] The service offered micro top-ups meaning prepaid subscribers can top-up prepaid credits with small

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denominations. The service gained popularity and soon after other service providers also used the technology in offering prepaid top-ups to its subscribers.

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Benefits

Retailers and prepaid subscribers both benefit from electronic reloading service.

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Security

Electronic reloading does not require transfer of any actual physical prepaid cards. No more cards to be kept or safeguarded against theft.

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Cost-effective

There is no need to incur costs on transportation, warehousing or other incidental expenses that would cut into the retailer's profits because all transactions are done electronically.

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Convenience

Prepaid credits are loaded automatically to the subscriber. No more long lines, no more PINs to be keyed in.

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Channels of reloading

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Reloading Stations

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Prepaid subscribers can top-up airtime balances via electronic reloading stations. Reloading Stations or retailers uses a Retailer SIM card in topping up prepaid credits to a subscriber's mobile phone. The functions of this SIM is also identical to the prepaid SIM cards offered commercially but with added reloading functionality. It uses a click-and-browse SIM technology to perform hassle-free transactions. A retailer enters the number of the mobile phone to be reloaded and then chooses the amount. The airtime balance reloaded will then be deducted from the retailer's commercial load credits which can also be reloaded from any of the network's wireless centers and authorized dealers. The commercial load is the prepaid airtime balance used in reloading a prepaid SIM card and is a separate load balance from the personal load balance of the retailer.

Any person can be a retailer since service providers are selling these retailer SIM cards without any additional contracts. Because of this scenario, reloading stations are popping up like mushrooms especially in the Philippines where every block of the city and even in most remotest areas in the provinces have reloading stations.

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Load transfer

From the success of electronic reloading, the same network who introduced the service also developed a load transfer service among prepaid subscribers. Load transfer uses the same technology used in reloading stations but uses a different method. A prepaid subscriber must key in the mobile number of the person where the credit balance must be transferred and sends to an access number designated by the service providers. Load transfers only supports small denominations and expires after 24 hours from the time of transfer.

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Reward Points

Electronic reloading can also be done via reward points redemption. Service providers offers subscribers with reward points which are accumulated every time a subscribers uses or purchases any value added services of the network. These points can be used to purchase electronic loads and other services depending on the amount of points earned.

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Automated Teller Machines

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Banks have already designed and supported reloading service via Automated Teller Machines. A menu for reloading is added onto the machine and can be used by any person with an ATM card. The denomination reloaded to a prepaid mobile phone is deducted from the bank account balance of the ATM card used.

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Other subscriptions

Electronic reloads can also be offered from other subscriptions from a network provider. One particular example is through a mobile broadband subscriptions. Service providers have designed a way to incorporate reloading functions of the mobile broadband. But these service are only marketed for personal use since the idea fleshed out from the load transfer service.

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What is TopUp360?

TopUp360 is a AirTime Credit Transfer Service for you to use to send Credit Amount in Local Currency to Loved Ones back home in old country for them to use to make calls through their local mobile network to call you or others. Airtime Credit is a prepaid mobile credit that can be purchased at points of sales in the form of calling cards, electronic pin numbers, SMS or through a mobile reload via Internet.

It is Safe, Easy to Use and Lowest Cost Way

to send small amount of credit and it enables you and the loved ones to achieve additional great savings. In many developing countries, one can make calls from one’s mobile handset through the local mobile operator to USA, Canada and EU countries at per minute rate that is much lower than what it costs to call in the other way around (in the opposite direction).

The saving in terms of price difference in per minute rate can be as much as 50%.

FAQs

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What is Top360 Service? It is AirTime Credit Transfer Service for you to use to send Credit Amount in Local Currency to Loved Ones back home in old country for them to use to make calls through their local mobile network to call you or others.

How to transfer airtime credit ? Click on BUY at the menu bar and follow the on-line prompting to fill in the required data and details of the airtime amount you wish to transfer. At the end of the process, you will be directed to the Moneybookers site to make payment.

What payments options are available ? We accept payments made through Moneybookers. You may also use a PIN purchased from this web site or a retailer.

How does the recipient (my loved ones) receive the airtime credit that I send ? In the purchase form, you would provide the phone number of the recipient. Once the payment is made and validated, the airtime credit of the recipient’s mobile number account is automatically credited with the amount that you send.

How long does a airtime credit transfer take? The whole operation should take only a few minutes. As soon as the payment is validated, the recipient’s mobile number account is topped up with the amount of credit that you send.

Are there fees to pay ? Yes, there are transfer fees to pay. Those fees are included in the unit price of airtime credit as expressed in the price converted into local currency.

Can I send a message to my recipient ? Yes, you can add a personalized message to the notification SMS sent to the recipient.

Am I refunded if the credit is not transmitted ? Refund may be made for individual cases where an error or fault is confirmed as having been made. Our Customer Support Department will resolve any dispute with proof of facts and figures.

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What would happen if I had sent text message to the TopUp360 service to send an Airtime Credit Amount that is not offered in the on-line selection? The exact amount, that you have ordered to send, may not be offered by the mobile network operator to which the recipient’s mobile number belongs; as such TopUp360 system will either send the same amount as ordered by you or an amount that approximates the amount that you have ordered to send; in either case your account will only be debited by the actual amount sent to the recipient.

If I have a small remainder amount of airtime credit in my Gift-to-Call Card/PIN that is less than the least amount offered by the on-line selection for gifting, what can I do with it? You can do one of two things to use the small remainder amount of airtime credit:

(i) go to www.topup360.com to buy additional credit amount for use with the same PIN or

(ii) top-up the existing PIN with credit from a new card by sending a text message in the following format:

71#<Existing PIN>#<New PIN>

416-568-8311 (Canada) or 347-478-5255 (USA)

How it Works

3 Easy Ways to buy and send AirTime Credit to someone’s mobile telephone number account:

You can buy from a retail outlet a TopUp360 Prepaid Card with a scratch stripe that covers the PIN for a certain value amount of AirTime Credit in US$ and use the PIN to send/transfer AirTime Credit, in the recipient’s local currency, to someone’s mobile telephone number account in one of the following ways:SMS

Send to TopUp360 SMSC Server 416-568-8311 (Canada) or 347-478-5255 (USA) a text message (SMS) containing the PIN, the amount of AirTime Credit amount in US$ that you want to send and the recipient’s mobile telephone number in the following format:

70# <PIN># <AirTime Credit Amount in US$ to send># <Mobile Telephone Number including country code>

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e.g.70#8967453256#10#8613590289153 Internet

If you have purchased an Airtime Credit Transfer Card, you can use your PIN to do the following:

(1) Register as a user / service subscriber

Click Here to Register

Advantage of registration:

• You can view the account information

including details of Airtime Credit

Transfers made

• You can top up the credit on-line

(2) Login and link your PIN to your account

Log in here

You can purchase additional Airtime Credit

and view your account etc. after login Retail

You can visit an Agent (retail outlet) of the MasterAgents Service Program and buy AirTime Credit amount in US$ and use it to send AirTime Credit, in the recipient’s local currency, to someone’s mobile telephone number account by providing to the agent: the amount of AirTime Credit amount in US$ that you want to send/transfer and the recipient’s mobile telephone number and your mobile telephone number (optional for receiving confirmation by SMS).

You can send AirTime Credit to some 74 countries including

Asia:

Bangladesh, China, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Vietnam

Middle East:

Iraq, Jordan

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Americas:

Anguilla, Antigua-Barbuda, Barbados, Bolivia, Brazil, Cayman islands, Chile, Colombia, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Montserrat, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru,St.Kitts, St. Lucia, St. Vincent Grenadines, Suriname, Turks & Caicos, Venezuela, Virgin Island

Africa:

Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Cote D’Ivoire, DRC, Egypt, Ghana, Guinee Conakry, Kenya, Madagascar, Mali, Morocco, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Tunisia

Europe:

Poland, Russia, Turkey

Note: The exact amount, that you order to send, may not be offered by the mobile network operator to which the recipient’s mobile number belongs; as such TopUp360 system will either send the same amount as ordered by you or an amount that approximates the amount that you ordered to send; in either case your account will only be debited by the actual amount sent to the recipient.

The recipient party will get an advice from the TopUp360 system when it is confirmed that the gift credit has been added to the recipient mobile number account.

After each gifting, your TopUp360 Gift Card is debited by the amount of the gift that you have sent.

On-line access to view usage data

You can register at the TopUp360 web site and input the serial number and the PIN of the gift card to view data on gift credit amounts sent and the debits and account balance.

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nternational Airtime Transfer refers to the practice of transferring mobile prepaid airtime from a prepaid mobile account in one country to an account in another country. REDtone is currently offering this real time international airtime transfer service that allows Indonesians and Bangladeshis in Malaysia to top up their prepaid mobile back home via SMS.

REDtone Ring-Bangla is a Bangladesh mobile prepaid reload card that allows Bangladeshis in Malaysia to top up their relatives' and friends' prepaid mobile account in Bangladesh.

REDtone Ring-Bangla is reloadable to the following Bangladesh Telcos:

There are three (3) denominations available for REDtone Ring-Bangla:

TK 100

TK 200

TK 400

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