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Wednesday, December 29, 2010

NADRA, Ufone join hands for payment of utility bills

ISLAMABAD, Dec 29 : NADRA Technologies Ltd (NTL) and Ufone have signed an agreement to give customers more options and places to pay their utility bills at more than 11,000 UShops around the country.

Deputy Chairman NADRA Tariq Malik and President Ufone Abdul aziz signed the MoU to facilitate the masses, a statement issue here Wednesday said.

Deputy Chairman NADRA on the occasion complimented the Ufone management for their initiative and customer care preferences while entering into agreement with NTL.

He further emphasized that e-Sahulat platform is a tip of the iceberg and NTL is in the process of transforming this platform into National Smart Service Platform for e-commerce.

Through this Smart Service Platform organizations can utilize e-Sahulat touch points for cash in and cash out transactions under branchless regulations issued by State Bank of Pakistan.

This arrangement will help commercial banks and Telcos to extend branchless banking concept through e-Sahulat without raising any infrastructure thereby saving capital and operational cost.

He hoped that this arrangement, once put in place will facilitate general public especially in rural areas with solutions housed in congenial environments, while exposing the public to state of the art technology.

Abdul Aziz, said the Ufone is constantly looking tobetter the lives of the people of Pakistan by providing the best quality and most innovative services in the country. He said the partnership with NADRA will help give customers more options and places to pay their utility bills at more than 11,000 UShops around the country.

NADRA Technologies Ltd has undertaken an innovative approach to develop a bill switch to provide an integrate system response to clients for payment of utility bills through alternate channels like mobiles phones, internet, ATM, bank branches and telcos outlets. This arrangement will facilitate NTL client companies and general public to pay their ut8ility bills through alternate channels.

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