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Oman: Omantel all set to tap Salalah Fest's market potential

MuscaT: Omantel will be offering a number of special offers and promotions to its customers as it celebrates its sponsorship of this year's Salalah Festival, the company has announced.

Omantel is a long-term supporter of one of Oman's best loved and most popular events, and this year, it will be sponsoring the festival as the company continues its strategy of supporting cultural events across the Sultanate.

The telecommunications company will be the main sponsor of an event that attracts tens of thousands of visitors from Oman and across the Middle East, to celebrate the monsoon season and the favourable cool and wet summer conditions. This makes Salalah a totally unique summer destination in the region.

The company will shortly be announcing details of its range of offers for consumers during the festival that will also allow Omantel to showcase to its customers in the Dhofar region their full range of innovative fixed, mobile and internet services.
During the one-month festival that runs throughout July, Omantel will have an exhibition stand at the heart of the festival activities in the Salalah Municipality Recreation Centre.

Customers will be able to find out how they can benefit from the special offers and buy Hayyak top-up cards and other products from this location and at Omantel branches throughout the Dhofar region.

Commenting on their sponsorship of the event, Hamdan Al Harasi, events and sponsorship manager at Omantel said: "We have enjoyed a long and highly successful relationship with the Salalah Tourism Festival and are delighted once again this year to be giving our support to this hugely popular and widely anticipated event.

"As the telecommunications company with the widest network coverage and largest customer base in the Sultanate, we are always happy to have such a strong presence in Salalah at this time of year. This ensures that all our customers can benefit from special offers, top up their mobiles and have all the Omantel services they require at our festival stand or branches across the Dhofar region."

Omantel brings individuals, families and businesses together and has successfully connected different parts of the country to each other and with the rest of the world.

Missed call alert
Meanwhile, Oman Mobile has announced that it has activated free Wainak service 'missed call alert' to all of its existing Mada subscribers. The service, branded Wainak, is a free service that will send SMS messages to customers every time they missed a call -- while their phone is switched off, busy or out of reach.

Salim Ali Al Nasri, senior manager Product Development at Omantel 's Consumer Unit said: "Wainak is one of the very first valued added services that Oman Mobile had introduced to its subscribers. It has proven to be very useful to the customers ensuring they will know who has tried to call them when their phone is switched off or out of the coverage area".

"It will be particularly useful for our customers who are travelling, enabling them to pick up missed calls on arrival at their destination and for those times when the battery may go flat or the handset is switched off," he added.

Wainak service is designed to cover overseas calls and those incoming from public telephones, landlines and other mobile subscribers other than Oman Mobile.

© Times of Oman 2011