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Weyak unveil its services to the public at GULFCOMMS 2006

Weyak, etisalat's new mobile and web portal, is to demonstrate its services and features to the public for the first time at Dubai's highly anticipated GULFCOMMS exhibition 2006.

  • United Arab Emirates: Saturday, November 18 - 2006 at 12:11
  • PRESS RELEASE




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The amount of services that are targeted to the consumers are vast and covers almost all of the user's requirements from entertainment to information and ending with a variety of community services.

'Being a part of GULFCOMMS 2006, Weyak will enable us to connect to our existing and potential customers, whilst also giving us that opportune time to forge new partnerships with content providers. The fact that this is Weyak's first time exhibiting at GITEX will give us that outlet to strongly reach out to the public and our industry colleagues,' said Essa Al Haddad, Chief Marketing Officer, etisalat.

'Weyak' has partnered with some of the international and region's top content providers to ensure that Etisalat customers have a variety of options to keep them informed and entertained. Content provider participation with etisalat at GITEX will play a major role in their launch and induction phase. 'We have planned several activities that are aimed at showcasing all the features that Weyak offers. Each of these will complement our providers' services and illustrate clearly how we work together to provide such a unique service,' added Al Haddad.

The Weyak zone, is one of the main highlights in etisalat's stand in GULFCOMMS this year, will feature lots of services:

Weyak Finance - which allow users to monitor their stock movement not only in the UAE, but in all GCC, Jordan and Egypt as well
Weyak Sports - which contains rich and exclusive content that covers all major sports, leaguers, teams and much more. Weyak sport provides an exclusive content to the English and Etisalat Football Leagues
Weyak Bollywood: showing Indian movie premieres, video clips, special ring tones
An exclusive Disney© booth - Whereby parents can participate and be part of their children daily life by helping them download their favourite cartoons characters, ring tones, video clips
Weyak Mobile Karaoke - visitors can select the song lyrics from the video, connect to the song, record, save and share it with their loved ones.
Weyak Blogs - customers and visitors can share their thoughts, ideas and views on Weyak blogs freely via the internet or via mobile though MMS blog
WeyakLite- available on mobile only, and allows the user to browse the catalogue for free as well as allowing the user to preview items before making a purchase
Weyak online multiple gaming - where visitors can experience the most daring online games such as 'Counterstrike', 'Battlefields' and much more
And lastly, Weyak will host the 'Weyak Star' booth in which faces from the crowd have the chance to become part of the advertising campaign.

To know more about Weyak services at GITEX, please visit the etisalat stand at ZA-1 Zabeel Hall.




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Notes and media contacts

To register to weyak's via Web portal, please visit www.weyak.ae to register via mobile portal, customers should send an SMS containing 'a weyak' to 1010. They will then receive an SMS message including necessary settings which consumers should 'save'. The next time they access the mobile internet http://mobile.weyak.ae will be set as their home page.

Weyak is a web and mobile portal that provides infotainment and community services to etisalat mobile and internet customers. Weyak is a service from etisalat.

For further media information, please contact:
Ahmed Bin Ali, Corporate Communications Manager
Tel: 02 6182173
Fax: 02 6334448
Lara Lynn Golden Posted by Lara Lynn Golden, News Editor
Saturday, November 18 - 2006 at 12:11 UAE local time (GMT+4)

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