Frequently Asked Questions
About Aladdin
Aladdin.life is a new age digital platform that is reimagining and taking the entire telecom buying experience online. It is designed to make your buying experience simpler and effortless. We help you make well informed decisions on mobile plans, SIMs and devices, and then connect you to a variety of authorized channel partners for your purchases.
We are the world’s first platform combining Search, Marketplace and Community for mobile services.
- Genie Search – Instantly finds you the best Mobile Plan if u are a current customer.
- Bazaar- UAE’s largest online Marketplace for Mobile Plans with SIMs and Devices. You can discover , compare and choose from 1000+ mobile price plans and 1500+ mobile phones on instalment plans from UAE telecom operators.
- Customer Community – Giving you the ability to share your experiences with telecom services and brands in UAE. You can not only rate and review your experiences but also benefit from customer to customer support for tips and adv
Our objective is to make telecom customers happier which will ultimately help all stakeholders of the telco industry. We believe our platform will speed up digitalization of the telecom ecosystem in UAE . We are partnering with all stakeholders in UAE telecom industry and plan to expand within the region very soon.
Telecom providers worldwide offer great products and price plans. But a vast majority of customers invariably need help in evaluating and choosing what best fits their individual needs and pocket. Existing customers need to be convinced that they are in fact on the right price plan. Majority of customers also have difficulty in keeping up with frequent price changes and promotions.
These are some of the market gaps we fulfil with transparency, neutrality and convenience at our core.
The service is particularly relevant for you under the present circumstances. You may be needing higher allowances of voice and data to keep in touch with your loved ones in country and around the world . Or you may want to save on your costs.
We will help ease your mobile cost burden by showing you plans that can get you more allowances of data and minutes for your current spending or maximise your savings.. Aladdin.life believes in the need for strengthening the bond of human connections particularly in times of crisis. Despite the distance we are keeping we have the innate human need to socialize and connect with others.
Now discover value like never before with Genie Search. If you are a mobile service user in the UAE, Genie Search will help you find the best mobile plan for your needs and budget.
If you want a new mobile line or want to explore all price plan options as an existing customer, then visit our online Bazaar. Using our special filters and comparison feature you will be able to choose from over 1000 mobile plans in UAE and another 1200 device plans to find the right one for your individual needs and budget
Once you have selected a plan you will be able to checkout and Order via online and offline authorized partners. You can request home delivery where applicable or choose store-pick up.
Channel partners include authorized online, sales booking agents and retail stores. For certain plans and scenarios, we may direct you to the Telecom operator’s own channels like e-store, my account, retail store, or contact-center for you to place the order.
You can decide between home delivery or store-pick up options. Once you decide on a More value or More Savings plan, you will simply have to pick a channel partner type (from the available options) who will fulfil your request.. Channel partners may include online, retail store and Sales Agent call-back options. In some cases, fulfilment will be via operator self-service options.
Please note that we do not take payments on our site. Your orders are placed with the channel partner of your choice. Channel partner is responsible for fulfilling your order.
Simply visit the link from any device.: https://uae.aladdin.life/
Once you decide on a plan, you will have to pick a channel partner who will complete the order and fulfil your request. Channel partners include authorised online, sales booking agents and retail stores. For certain plans and scenarios, we may direct you to the Telecom operator’s own channels like e-store, My Account, retail stores, or contact center for you to place the order.
Important:
- Please note that we do not take payments on our site. You are connected to a channel partner of your choice. Channel partners are authorised partners of UAE telecom providers and they are responsible for fulfilling your order.
- Please note that our services are currently available for individual UAE mobile customers. We will soon be catering to SME and Home Service customers in UAE.
Channel partners include:
- Online Channel Partners
- Retail stores
- Direct Sales Agent call-back option for home delivery
- For certain plans we may transfer you to the operator’s e-store or recommend you to call operator contact center for you to place the order.
In addition to online sellers and retail stores, Sales Booking Agents or Direct Sales Agent are yet another Sales Channel at your service.
Sales Booking agent will call you once you place a request. They are authorised sales agents of telecom operators who will validate your request and help you place the order. They will then do the needful to get your order activated through the operator and coordinate your SIM delivery where applicable.
Such agents work 9 am to 6 pm everyday (UAE time) except Fridays.
Please get in touch with your System Administrator/IT Support to resolve the technical issue.
We shall launch it very soon. We shall keep you posted in this regard.
Our current focus is on Plans offered for the home network but we shall diversify into other offerings such as Roaming Plans very soon.
This in in our plans.
Yes! Very soon
For now, we have launched our services in UAE but very soon we shall launch it in KSA and Egypt too.
We work with all UAE telecom stakeholders and in conformance with all local laws.
Kindly note there is no outage/issue at our end and to make sure you get the best experience every time; we have optimized our website accordingly. Kindly check your browser/system settings for the same.
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Our apologies for any inconvenience caused. Please provide us with the details and we will make sure someone gets in touch with you in this regard at the earliest.
We have our own quality monitoring service to ensure accuracy of data provided on our site. At times there may be a time gap between new pricing launched by an operator and such new data appearing on our site. At times there may also be some delays in following operator device stock movements.
In any case should you notice any discrepancy in the accuracy of our data please email us at customercare@aladdin.life. with your observations. We shall remain ever grateful to you for your help and support.
While operators’ websites display the respective sets of tariffs offered by them, aladdin.life is a marketplace that lists and displays the total universe of tariff plans available in the UAE across all operators. Furthermore we provide customers the ability to easily search and find the best plan for their needs and budget. We also feature several other products like Genie Search, Bazaar and Customer Community. Aladdin.life also guides and connects you to the appropriate set of channel partners to fulfill a variety of your requests.
I feel I am on an outdated plan which doesn’t offer the best value to me. Can aladdin.life help me?
For sure! Please visit the “Genie Search” on aladdin.life and enter details of your last month’s total bill amount ( or total spend for prepaid) along with your data and minutes allowances. We will instantly display your more value or move savings options.
Our Alert service will be launched shortly. We will notify you once we launch this service.
No. We are not a Service Provider for telecom services.
For sure! We will register you for this service immediately.
Bazaar
Bazaar is UAE’s largest online Marketplace for Mobile Plans with SIMs and Devices. You can discover , compare and choose from 1000+ mobile price plans and 1500+ mobile phones on instalment plans from UAE telecom operators.
At Bazaar, can I view all the Mobile Postpaid/Prepaid & Device Plans from all the operators in UAE?
Using our special filters and comparison feature, you can browse through 1000+ mobile price plans from Etisalat, du and Virgin mobile. We also provide you 1500+ device plan options to choose from.
You can customise your search by using several Filters. Filters include monthly allowances required for National data, Flexi Minutes, National minutes, International Minutes and Monthly Budget. Sort and comparison options are also provided.
Following are the compelling benefits of Bazaar for you:
- Maximize Savings
- Maximize Value for Money.
- Minimize Wastage of unused Data & Voice allowances.
Customer Community
We give you the opportunity to share your voice and be heard. Our platform is building a customer community for online reviews, ratings, and customer to customer advice and support. You can rate and submit reviews on your experiences with telecom services and related brands in UAE. Should you have any questions, or want any advice or tips, please fill out a question and we will solicit an answer from the community.
Customer Community is an open forum on aladdin.in wherein customers can participate in and benefit from:
- Conversations among customers, influencers and brands.
- Ratings, Reviews, Customers helping Customers in the form of tips, advice and support..
- Sharing your ideas and suggestions.
Please note that our services are currently available for individual UAE mobile customers. We will soon be catering to SME and Home Service customers in UAE.
New customers, MNP requests and Migrations from Prepaid to Postpaid are handled by the following types of channel partners for completion of order and fulfilment:
Sales Agents Call-back for home delivery:
- Online order for home delivery -Coming soon
- Nearest Retail Store for pick-up- Coming soon
- For certain plans we may transfer the request to operator’s e-store.
Customers moving from one Postpaid plan to another or moving from one prepaid plan to another will use the following self-service channels when such movement is within the same operator:
Etisalat: Nearest Store, Contact Center
Du: My account login, Nearest Store, Contact Center
Virgin Mobile: Virgin Mobile UAE App
For MNP requirements/requests, customers will be directed to various Sales Channels available.
For such requirements/requests customers will be directed to various Sales Channels available
We don’t offer or display any tariffs to Customers which are different from those offered by operators.
Our apologies for any inconvenience caused. Kindly note that Sales Agents work from 9 am to 6 pm every day except Friday.
If your request has not been fulfilled within a 4-hour period on a working day, please give us the details and we will make sure someone gets in touch with you in this regard at the earliest.
Our apologies for any inconvenience caused. Please provide us with the details and we will make sure someone gets in touch with you in this regard at the earliest.
Our utmost apologies. We regret the same Sir/Ma’am. We will make sure someone gets in touch with you in this regard at the earliest.
Genie
Genie Search is designed to ease your cost burden for mobile usage. It matches your current mobile usage pattern with hundreds of available price plans from UAE Telecom Service Providers to instantly identify more value or more saving opportunities. It’s simple and quick.
It’s simple. Just fill in your last month’s total bill amount or total spend (if on prepaid) and Genie Search will show you all available alternatives. The more information you provide the better the results will be. You can fill in your data and minutes monthly allowances to see more refined results.
“More Value” display will show you available bundles with higher data and minutes allowances than your current plan and at little or no extra cost.
“More Savings” display will show you bundles with data and minutes allowances similar to your current plan but available at a lower monthly price.
You will be guided to a selection of existing channels for requesting upgrades/downgrades, migrations from Pre-paid to Postpaid, Mobile Number Portability) MNP and purchases of new mobile connections.
Important:
- Please note that we do not take payments on our site. You are connected to a channel partner of your choice. Channel partners are authorised partners of UAE telecom providers and they are responsible for fulfilling your order.
- Please note that our services are currently available for individual UAE mobile customers. We will soon be catering to SME and Home Service customers in UAE.
Current Postpaid customers can search for “More Value” and “More savings” options with other Postpaid or Prepaid Plans.
Current Prepaid customers can search for “More Value” and “More Savings” options on other Prepaid and Postpaid plans.
Help Center
“Help Center” is your very own repository of information on:
- Various SLAs (Service Level Agreements)/Time Commitments agreed amongst various stakeholders in the value chain.
- Vital information as listed below, related to Mobile Operators which empowers you with a well-informed decision-making as well as smoothen your buying experience:
- Network Coverage
- Documents Required
- Regulatory matters
- Terms & Conditions of Services
- Exit Fee Rules
- Upgrade/Downgrade, Migration & MNP Rules, Procedures & Policies.
- Various Service Application Forms.
- Important Links
- Payment Options
- Branch/Store Locations.