MTN Zone: MTN Rwanda miss service

MTN Rwanda subscribers cannot benefit from the recently launched MTN Zone service, MTN Uganda has announced. With the MTN Zone product, MTN subscribers get a discounted call rate depending on the volume of traffic on the MTN network they are using. The product price plan offers 99 per cent savings on MTN to MTN calls. The discount percentages show on your phone as you move from one location to another. The lower the network usage, the larger the discount. But Rwandans will have to wait. Efforts to get a comment from MTN Rwanda were futile, as staff were not returning calls. “Call (Amin) Gafaranga. He is in-charge of products,” John  Bosco Sendahangwa, MTN Rwanda Publicist said. But Gafaranga could not return calls.

Friday, August 22, 2008
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MTN Rwanda subscribers cannot benefit from the recently launched MTN Zone service, MTN Uganda has announced. With the MTN Zone product, MTN subscribers get a discounted call rate depending on the volume of traffic on the MTN network they are using.

The product price plan offers 99 per cent savings on MTN to MTN calls. The discount percentages show on your phone as you move from one location to another. The lower the network usage, the larger the discount.

But Rwandans will have to wait. Efforts to get a comment from MTN Rwanda were futile, as staff were not returning calls.

"Call (Amin) Gafaranga. He is in-charge of products,” John  Bosco Sendahangwa, MTN Rwanda Publicist said. But Gafaranga could not return calls.

In interview with The New Times Sheila Kangwagye, MTN Uganda’s Public Relations officer said, "MTN Zone is currently only available to MTN customers in Uganda, South Africa, Swaziland, Guinea Bissau, and Ghana. Therefore MTN Rwanda customers cannot access the service yet but I’m sure  they are working on introducing the service into that market too.”

Through this new initiative MTN aims to change the traditional usage patterns and further stimulate call rates during times of low network utilisation.

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