The Best GSM Deal In Town Series: Midnight GSM Calls
by John Sagai Adams2006-12-12 02:18:56 | Viewed 4379 times
It is another Christmas Season. Welcome to the Best GSM Deal Series where we look at several GSM packages and technologies in Nigeria and look at the best deal in town. We will cover packages, services and GSM phones so that you are fully clued-up as you scribble your Christmas Wish list.
(But as you go shopping, don't forget the Reason for the season... ;-D )
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THE BEST DEAL IN TOWN: FREE MIDNIGHT GSM CALLS
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I set a personal record the other day when I talked for 2
hours 19 minutes with a friend. Do the math: that is N4,000
if I made the call on Glo Classic Plus during the daytime.
(And yep, it was a LADY friend I was yakking with.)
Such indulgences are only possible in this free-midnight-call era.
When MTN Nigeria made the bold move to drop tariffs for nighttime calls to N6 per minute in September 2006, they probably didn't know that they were starting a revolution.
And that is what it is: a revolution.
The night-time tariffs are the single most important reason subscribers are migrating to the networks new packages today. The popularity of the period causes such congestion that getting a call through in one dial is virtually impossible these days.
Glo and MTN Nigeria are currently the only two networks slugging it out in this "vampire hour" -as someone called it on Esato.com.
The sudden drop of tariffs and new packages introduced by the two GSM giants has resulted in adrenaline surge and panic reactions from the Fixed Wireless networks. This has -unintentionally- led to the Best Deal in Town.
THE BEST DEAL IN TOWN
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One small, anxious, Fixed Wireless network called O'Tel (a.k.a. Odua Telecoms) has introduced its free nighttime call package that starts from 10 pm daily. O'Tel operates in the South West of Nigeria.
As from 10 pm EVERY NIGHT, all calls on O'Tel are free.
(Of course, it must be a local call on the same network.)
We expect more reactions from the Fixed Wireless networks that have had to increase their tariffs recently as a result of the new interconnection rates that took effect on 22nd September 2006.
One of such is the promotion of FREE WEEKEND CALLS that is already available on some of the Fixed Wireless networks.
Now THAT will be a crowd-puller.
STOP PRESS
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Dear Customer, startting from 4th Dec '06,
calls b/w 12 midnight & 5am on Classic Plus
package will attract 10 kobo per sec or
N4.50 per minute. Glo with Pride
-Text from Glo
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