MTN South Africa has launched a new international calling promotion that will see customers provided with the opportunity to call selected destinations from 79 cents per minute. MTN will also introduce the new international calling bundle and subscription offers which will further discount the in-bundle rates to 49c per minute to selected destinations for the promotional period.
The International Calling Promotions will run until 31 January 2015 and is designed to give travellers during the peak tourism season a cost-effective way of staying in touch with friends and family.
“MTN South Africa has been able to leverage its relationship with selected MTN operations throughout Africa to bring customers low calling rates. There are also several international destinations that will form part of the promotion,” says Larry Annetts, chief marketing officer at MTN South Africa.
“The new International Calling bundle and subscription will offer customers access to preferential international calling rates to 48 international calling destinations from 29 October until 31 January 2015. MTN is committed to giving its customers the way to cost-effectively stay in touch with those closest to them while they are travelling,” says Annetts.
The International Calling bundle includes R30 of inclusive value and is valid for one month from the time it is activated. Meanwhile, the subscription offer will give customers access to discounted international calling rates for an entire month at a rate of R5 per month.
The new promotion, bundle, and subscription offers are available to all MTN PayAsYouGo, Top Up, MyMTNChoice, and contract customers. Countries include the US, the UK, Germany India, Botswana, Zambia and Nigeria.
Wow, thanks, MTN! How munificent of you! And how shrewd and despicable. How about lowering the prices of what people actually need: domestic calls and data. How can you justify International calls costing less than domestic ones?
Greedy swine.
Is it absolutely necessary to be so rude. If you were using MTN you would realise just how much rates have gone down by recently.
Rude? No, angry. Angry that MTN purports to be generous and concerned with their customers needs by widely advertising the price reduction of a service useless to most people. Let’s look at the prices of a product people do use: R10 for 10MB prepaid data. R29 for 75MB. Note predominantly poor people would make use of such small, prepaid bundles. And what does MTN do? Extract the most cash they can. That’s acceptable to you?
This is great, that there are people who
tries to cut cost of roaming! In our globalized environment – phone calls has
never been this important. Business is
done all over the world and people travel as much as never before. In result no
one wants to see their empty wallets. Roaming bills are just too MUCH and
roaming price has to be decreased. We
believe in one intelligent app that adapts user calls, allowing to save up to
95% of all roaming calls.