Nadra, Ufone ink pact to facilitate masses.

ISLAMABAD: NADRA Technologies Limited (NTL) and Ufone have signed an agreement to give customers more options and places to pay their utility bills at more than 11,000 U-Shops around the country. December 29 (THE NATION): Deputy Chairman NADRA Tariq Malik and President Ufone Abdul Aziz signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to facilitate the masses, says a press release issued here on Wednesday. The Deputy Chairman NADRA on this occasion complimented the Ufone management for their initiative and customer care preferences while entering into agreement with NTL. He further emphasised that e-Sahulat platform was a tip of the iceberg and NTL was in process of transforming this platform into National Smart Service Platform for e-commerce. Through this Smart Service Platform, organisations can utilise e-Sahulat touch points for cash in and cash out transactions under branchless regulations issued by the SBP. 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. It is expected 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, CEO Ufone, said that Ufone was constantly looking to better the lives of the people of Pakistan by providing the best quality and most innovative services in the country. This partnership with NADRA would help give customers more options and places to pay their utility bills at more than 11,000 U-Shops around the country, he added. The NADRA Technologies Ltd (NTL) has undertaken an innovative approach to develop a billing switch to provide an integrated system response to clients for payment of utility bills through alternate channels like mobiles phones, internet, ATM, bank branches and telcos outlets. In this connection NTL and Ufone have signed an agreement under which NTL has offered their billing switch to Ufone facilitating the payment of utility bills through U-shops and other outlets.

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