Tigo has announced new lower SMS price
points for international messaging within the Northern Corridor - Uganda, Kenya
and South Sudan. Customers will now be
able to send SMS for almost half price.
The new prices will support the One
Area Network initiative, part of the Northern
Corridor Infrastructure Framework Agreement which was signed at the fifth
Heads of State Summit for the regional Projects held in Nairobi in May 2014.
The
new prices
SMS
The
cost of a text message (SMS) from Rwanda to Uganda, Kenya or South Sudan will
be charged 45Rwf per event down from 75Rwf.
Voice
The
Calling rates to Kenya, Uganda and South Sudan were earlier discounted to from
68, 60, and 60, down from 128, 256 and 245 respectively.
Chantal
Umutoni Kagame - Deputy Chief Executive Officer - Tigo Rwanda commented:
“We
welcome the decision from our Northern Corridor Heads of States summit; lowering
our SMS tariffs gives our cusotmers the
freedom to text more. The rates were revised to 45% less across the corridor,
allowing those who favour SMS to communicate with their business partners,
friends and family cost-effectively and to grow new ventures across the
corridor.”
Sitting
on the panel of the Kenya-Rwanda Business Forum held at the downtown Serena
Kigali Hotel, Chantal Kagame emphasized the need for telecom operators to
harmonize calling and texting rates across the region. Lowering the voice rates
by 50% in the last quarter of 2014 encouraged a traffic growth of 30%, she
mentioned.
Tigo
recently launched a new slogan, Live it, Love it, as a result of an extensive
project that seeks to reposition and streamline products for its fast changing
customer base and give real value to its users.
Chantal
Kagame added, “We ensure that Tigo users live and love their Tigo experience
irrespective of where they are. Our compliance with the One Area Network
initiative is a demonstration of our commitment to this promise.’
NEW
INTERNATIONAL TIGO PACKAGE
From
as low as 300 Rwf, Tigo customers are eligible to purchase a voice bundle to
call international to 30 European countries PLUS USA/india/China/Canada.
How to access
Purchase
the calling pack at Rwf 300 with resources of 12 minutes by dialing *222*25#
The 12 minutes has no restrictions. A client may decide to
exhaust the minutes on either local calls or international calls.
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