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[Tee Emm]

Answer to 'What is the favorite cellular service of Pakistan' sent to ASK Telenor, I received the following answer from the service:

Its a matter of personal opinion, Telenor says Telenor Best, mobilink users praise mobilink service. Mobilink has 28.57M uses but Telenor improving. Bye, ASK

LOLZ! Once again, the answer lacked cohesion and contained punctuation and grammar errors and omissions. The last part of the answer was cool where the IJ was obviously apologetic in the answer.

-T

[Muhammed Nasrullah]

I guess this is an implementation of the now closed Google Answers or the still functioning Yahoo Answers.

So basically it is Human-Powered. If one person is supposed to take 15 mins to reply to one message; thats 4 replies per hour. at 9 PKR per answer; thats 36 PKR per hour. At 48hr/week, thats barely 6,912 PKR. They pay these people AND make money? These folks really are clawing for more ARPU.

[Shaheer Khan]

Well... what you're assuming is that they GET an SMS every 15 minutes.

Yes, it's a premium service...apparently, no one's offering something
like it, so they do have the right to charge a higher price for it.
But again - we're assuming there's activity every 15 minutes, for 24
hours.

There needs to be a reality check to this :D

As for the answer, I guess Telenor's playing diplomatic. That's good
(since Mobilink would be bound to say "Pakistan's favorite cellular
service"; atleast what Telenor's rep said was somewhat justified. So
there's not much bias there... I think. I've never used the service
myself though.

Oh - and a little update. Yahoo Answers was closed down, like Google
Answers. However, the Russian service of Google Answers is back up (or
is in it's resurrection).

Yahoo Answers is now user-based, rather than someone asking an
official at Yahoo for an answer. It was great though while it lasted.
I used to read it daily (RSS).

On Jan 27, 1:25 am, "Muhammed Nasrullah" <nasrul...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I guess this is an implementation of the now closed Google

> Answers<http://answers.google.com/answers/>or the still functioning
> Yahoo
> Answers <http://answers.yahoo.com/>.

>
> So basically it is Human-Powered. If one person is supposed to take 15 mins
> to reply to one message; thats 4 replies per hour. at 9 PKR per answer;
> thats 36 PKR per hour. At 48hr/week, thats barely 6,912 PKR. They pay these
> people AND make money? These folks really are clawing for more ARPU.
>

> On Jan 26, 2008 9:39 PM, Tee Emm <tariq.must...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Answer to *'What is the favorite cellular service of Pakistan' *sent to

> > ASK Telenor, I received the following answer from the service:
>

> > *Its a matter of personal opinion, Telenor says Telenor Best, mobilink

> > users praise mobilink service. Mobilink has 28.57M uses but Telenor

> > improving. Bye, ASK*