Qtel has launched an online data calculator designed to help customers understand more about how data is consumed in uploading posts on Facebook, surfing the web, watching YouTube, sending/receiving e-mails, video streaming, and downloading music. The tool is designed to give potential customers a better understanding of how much data they would typically consume with Qtel’s various price plans.
“With a better understanding of how much data they are consuming – as well as how they access the Internet – customers can pick the price plan that is right for them,” Qtel said.
The data calculator is the first-of-its-kind in Qatar, Qtel said and added it builds on the company’s ongoing online interactive web services, which has already seen the launch of online payment and ‘Backstage’, the new downloadable music service.
Available at Qtel’s website, and the widely popular Qtel Facebook fan page, the service is ‘fully interactive and provides a good estimate’ of data that is consumed by different online activities.
The tool does not calculate a customer’s actual usage, but rather provides a general assessment of data consumed online.
For potential customers of Qtel’s Mobile Broadband and Mobile Internet Packs, the new data calculator enables them to estimate daily and monthly Data usage, by calculating the number of e-mails, Web pages, applications and minutes of streaming music and video they access.
After using the tool, customers can have comfort in knowing they have chosen the right package for their needs.
The Qtel Data Calculator allows customers to input their own estimate, or choose one of Qtel’s data options – such as 2GB, 5GB, or 15GB for Mobile Broadband – and see general estimates of a multitude of applications.
The data calculator is available free of charge, and customers can use it to compare the benefits of different mobile broadband and mobile Internet packs.