To enable affordable entry levels for the bonus credit top-ups, Ooredoo has also launched a new QR20
top-up card, offering QR20 credit and five local Ooredoo minutes, which can also be used for international calling during the promotion.
Energy companies are warning vulnerable residents about an electricity top-up card scam
ENERGY companies have warned homeowners to be cautious after thousands of residents across South Wales have fallen victim to rogue traders selling fake electricity top-up cards.
Customers will still be able to obtain Top-Ups online with a Virgin Mobile
Top-Up card, or a debit or credit card, the company said.
On April 24, SC had ordered the restoration of all taxes on mobile phones
top-up cards. While disposing of the suo motu case, Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Asif Saeed Khosa had announced a short order while heading a three-member bench of Justice Qazi Faez Isa and Justice Ijazul Ahsan, saying that the apex court will not intervene in public revenue and tax collection propositions.
According to NTRA, it agreed to collect a VAT worth 60 piastres on the EGP 10
top-up cards (used to recharge phone credit).
QR100 and QR200
top-up cards are even better value, offering 11 and 25 bonus international minute talk time respectively.Customers using direct top-ups worth QR500 get an amazing 61 minutes -- more than an hour -- of international talk-time.
The phones giant has trimmed the retailer's cut on its EUR10 and EUR5 electronic top-ups from 10 per cent to 6.5 per cent, after already prompting shopkeepers towards installing electronic top-up machines by chopping the margin on
top-up cards by two per cent last year.
He added that it is illogical for traders to achieve a profit of just EGP 5-10 for the sale of a mobile phone worth EGP 2,000, whereas they achieve a maximum profit of EGP 1.9 for every EGP 100 worth of top-up cards, which represents nearly 2%.
However, on Saturday, the Ministry of Supply and Trade launched intensive campaigns on all stores that sell top-up cards.
One of the traders was arrested for the possession of top-up cards worth EGP 75,000.