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In the spirit of
celebrating the holy month of Ramadan, Starcomms Plc is offering its
Muslim customers the opportunity of purchasing and owning a unique
handset, the Qiblah, exclusively equipped with integrated features that
are tailor-made to meet the needs of fasting and praying Muslims.

The new phone has
an indicator setting which points to Mecca and comes complete with a
compass and prayer time alarm functions. The Qiblah indicator uses an
inbuilt longitude and latitude orientation or city references that,
when used in comparison to the magnetic north, indicates the direction
of the Qiblah so that the Muslim can, from any place he is, know in
what direction to face and pray. The Qiblah in Islam is the compass
that shows the direction that Muslims face to pray wherever they are.

Speaking on the
functionality of the Qiblah phones, Tushar Maheshwari, Chief Commercial
Officer of Starcomms noted that very often it is difficult to determine
the four cardinal points when one is constantly on the move.

Therefore, it may
not be easy to determine the Qiblah when it is time to pray for a
Muslim whose routine requires moving around. With the aid of the
compass installed in the phone, a Muslim customer of Starcomms can
easily know which direction to face at prayer time.

The Qiblah phones are designed with colourful Islamic visual
features, such as lovely wall papers and screen savers as well as
inspiring ring-tones. The phone is also a channel for the customer to
enjoy the Listen-To-Quran service of Starcomms, which is the first of
its kind in the country.