Telenor Easy Paisa (EP) launched today

by Mansoor Ehsan on October 15, 2009

Telenor Pakistan has joined hands with Tameer Micro Finance Bank to introduce branchless mobile banking. They claim it to be the first in Pakistan but MCB has already done an attempt to launch branchless mobile banking. But the innovation brought by Telenor in terms of services offered in this branchless mobile banking product can be termed as first in Pakistan.

Telenor has been running a teaser campaign on facebook and blogosphere with an iPod as a prize to the winner who could guess what is EP.

Telenor’s easypaisa site quotes this about the new service:

easypaisa is the easiest way to conduct your financial transactions whether they are related to paying your utility bills, sending/receiving money within Pakistan, receiving money from abroad etc. Currently easypaisa is starting with utility bill payments with many other products to be available soon.

Easypaisa is not only for Telenor customers only rather it is available for everyone. Any body can just walk in to more than 2000 designated easypaisa outlets through out the country and hand over the bill with payment which would be processed easily and quickly. The bill would be stamped as paid for future reference and customer would also receive a confirmation SMS of paid bill.

Utility companies on board:

  • PTCL (Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited)
  • SSGC (Sui Southern Gas Company)
  • SNGPL (Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Ltd)
  • KESC (Karachi Electric Supply Company)
  • ISCO (Islamabad Electric Supply Company)
  • GEPCO (Gujranwala Electric Power Company)
  • LESCO (Lahore Electric Supply Company)
  • HESCO (Hyderabad Electric Supply Company)

Service Charges:

(Bill Amount) Fee (PKR)
PKR 0-1000 10
PKR 1001-4000 15
PKR 4000+ 25

Other Info:

How it actually works:

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{ 19 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Orkut Scraps 10.16.09 at 12:53 pm

Sounds to be good offer by the joint venture of Telenor and Tameer Micro Finance Bank. Let’s hope for good.

2 tariq.anwer 10.17.09 at 12:01 pm

good work by tameer bank, it’s tameer team who has done it.business head tameer punjab

3 Shaukat Ali 10.18.09 at 1:33 pm

I am proprietor of “shoukat customer service, Hazar Khani Road,out side Ganj Gate, Peshawar City. Want to introduce and run this service on my shop. How is it possible? want to learn it. would you please help in this respect.

waiting for response.
thanks in anticipation

Shaukat Ali & Shahsaz Ali
for
Shaukat Customer Service,
Hazar Khani Road,
Peshawar.

4 Mohsin Javed 10.18.09 at 1:50 pm

its great offer by telenor thanx for sharing

5 MUHAMMAD MUQEEM KHAN 10.19.09 at 6:29 am

I am proprietor of “ghousia photostat, gulshan e maymar karachi . Want to introduce and run this service on my shop. How is it possible? want to learn it. would you please help in this respect.

waiting for response.
thanks in anticipation

MUHAMMAD MUQEEM KHAN
for
GHOUSIA PHOTOSTAT,
SHOP NO.1 PLOT NO. A-140 SECTOR Z-6 GULSHAN E MAYMAR
KARACHI,
.

6 farhan 10.24.09 at 6:11 am

a person who does not have mobile, Can he avail this service????

7 razzaq 10.24.09 at 4:29 pm

i have mobile shop in bahria town lahore can i have this offer in my shop please let me know. if its possiable please give me this service.thanks razzaq 03225114089

8 Mansoor Ehsan 10.26.09 at 4:32 am

all those who are interested to offer this service on their shops can contact Telenor’s dealer services at 345 545. or you can ask from telenor customer service department at +92 51 111 345 100

9 Faheem Shahzad 10.27.09 at 7:52 am

@Farhan: Yes even if you don’t have a mobile phone, you can avail this service. In this case, your bill will be stamped by the dealer who will collect your bill. You MUST check the confirmation message of Bill Payment on Dealer’s Mobile, once he enters your CNIC, Reference # and Amount in the process.

10 saeed Ahmed Qazi 10.27.09 at 6:50 pm

congrates/well done

telenore & tameer bank have done great efforts for being helping hands for un banked people in pakistan, its really very easy process for paiding their utility bills through 2000 outlets allover pakistan.

11 Trekker 10.29.09 at 6:24 pm

A LESCO bill wrongly stamped by EasyPaisa shopkeeper

By: Rizwan Haider

Today, in the morning I was shocked to know through a local newspaper that LESCO has refused to acknowledge the payments of the LESCO customers that they have made to Telenor EasyPaisa Outlets.Really upset, I called the LESCO (Lahore Electricity Supply Company) to know the truth and their representative from the Revenue department confirmed the status and said,” we are not getting any sort of payments from Telenor or Tameer Bank as there is no agreement between LESCO and Telenor/Tameer Bank so far”.He further told that “If you have paid your amount already then you better get it back from the outlet you paid and pay it to the recognized bank the way you have been doing for years or otherwise you will have to pay the arrears next time you get the bill”.I called the Tameer Bank to know how the bank is going to clear this issue or if they will be able to pay my amount back, a Lahore based senior officer of the bank confirmed me that there is no agreement between LESCO and Tameer bank so far and Tameer bank is currently using KASB Bank to pay the amounts to LESCO. To my question that why Telenor and Tameer bank came forward to collect the money from the people of Pakistan without establishing a system and network, he was speechless first and then tried to clear the situation he said, “Tameer bank is going to have an agreement with LESCO in the coming week and if you get your next month’s bill with arrears, don’t worry and it will be ok, your money is safe”.I am not satisfied because I never checked the stamp at first on my bill that the shopkeeper had put on my bill as I had a trust on the company but today I checked the stamp it was ridiculous, the stamp was telling that I had paid a bill of December 2009 whereas I paid the bill of October 2009.I asked this to the guy representing Tameer Bank and he told, “You must go back and get the stamp changed”. Well, it is pinching, that if Tameer Bank tries to clear my amount in the next month or they are able enter into an agreement with the LESCO; even then my bill will not be paid because a wrong stamp by shopkeeper had completely changed my transaction from the very instance I paid him. I again say, the service is no doubt a good activity by why Telenor found it necessary to deceive people of Pakistan when they did not have the proper arrangements. Telenor people say that whenever a service is launched there are always glitches, but I say, why it always happens. The company was conducting test exercise for the last one month that means it was collecting money from their employees and the entire network of shopkeepers without any legal standing?

Lahore is a population of over 10 Million and if 5% of the population trusted Telenor and paid their electricity bills in the month of October, we can expect a huge amount of money that the company/bank collected on LESCOs’ behalf. Why Telenor and Tameer Bank spent Millions of Ruppees on marketing and advertisement at a very immature stage when they knew it from the very first day that it is not going to work. I ask them, isn’t it a foul play or if I used a little technical language, it may be called a fraud or financial scam. It is always the right of customer to know before what he pays and what for? State Bank, PTA and all the concerned authorities must take these kinds of things very seriously because it may please few people to see that how speedily Pakistan is forwarding towards Mobile Banking but there has to be a proper frame work and guidelines before any activity.

12 Qamar 10.30.09 at 4:15 pm

I want to ask a quistion that your service charges has alradey include in bill Or you will collect form customer additional and I have a shop i want to keep this service in my shop
So,what procizer of to join your servic and how many commission you will provide.

Please replay me

Qamar

13 Agha Ahsan 11.14.09 at 12:14 pm

MY name is AGHA AHSAN Zaman and i want to get this services it is good Services in pakistasn
it also save time of the people i want to get full detail about this services so that i use it as Busniess
ok

14 Mazher Arif 11.20.09 at 11:40 am

i have mobile shop in Model town lahore can i have this offer in my shop please let me know. if its possiable please give me this service.thanks Mazher 03009482290

15 Adnan Aslam 11.22.09 at 8:09 pm

I wanna know about the service is working in Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand ETC
if any one have information. please let me know thanks.

Regards

16 Saleem 12.17.09 at 11:32 am

What if sender sends money for business, but the receiver turns out to be fraud and runs with the money. What can the sender do?

17 ABBAS BAIG MIRZA 12.23.09 at 3:55 pm

VERY BAD EXPERIENCE WITH EASY PAISA SCHEME,I have sent some cash to lahore from Islamabad but fail to receive within 72 HRS,it is intresting that no one responce me proper where
as no one ready to pass on any contact no of any responsible person or authority.
EASY PAISA even no office in ISLAMABAD.
Mr Azmat bajwa feelpain of this practice where as i paid rs 343 for this bad TAJURBA.
ADVICE FOR THE LOVING PAKISTANIS NOT TO SEND MONEY BY THIS FAKE COMPANY

18 habib ullah 12.27.09 at 6:26 am

I have a shop at GTRoad peshawar Oppside Ferdos Cinema. If it is possible i want to start this service on my shop. Please give me a complete information about this. I will appriciate your response in this regard.

19 faisal 03.08.10 at 11:50 am

anyone pls tell me how can i send money from one place to another.
kindly sms me or email
0345-6787777

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