By Chris Alu
One of the giant telecommunications in Africa, MTN, has slashed its data roaming rate with the introduction of a new roaming package tagged Roam like Home with “MTN One World’, as part of its effort to ensure internet accessibility at the most affordable rate while roaming.
MTN One World rates will enable MTN prepaid and post-paid subscribers, who travel out of the country, to have access to the internet on their mobile phones and send text messages, paying a standard home rate of 5kobo per kilobyte and N4 per SMS, as if they are in Nigeria.
Larry Annetts, chief marketing officer of the company, said that the service is available in any of the 19 operating countries.He explained that, the key strategic focus for the new tariff plan is to ensure data communication at the most affordable rate on the go.
“We are always committed to deliver a new world of digital experience to our customers and the thrust of this initiative is to ensure friendly roaming tariff rates, where our customers who travel to any of our 19 operating countries can still feel at home, browsing at a standard home rate of 5kobo per kilobyte.
“Our customers traveling to Ghana, Cameroun, Republic of Benin, South Africa and other MTN operating countries can continue to update their profile messages, share pictures and great moments on social networks, as well as read their emails and browse the internet without any differential in data cost,” Annetts said.
Apart from the data rate, customers can also enjoy same SMS home rate of N4, affordable call rates and other affordable friendly roaming services that MTN offers.
Annetts also said that subscribers neither need a migrating code, subscription fee nor airtime deposit, as they “automatically qualify to use and enjoy the rates while roaming in any of the 19 MTN operating countries.
All this required is to ensure that data is turned on while roaming. Subscribers roaming on MTN OneWorld can also conveniently check their account balance and recharge via MTN Nigeria’s available top up options.
