MTN announced on Thursday evening (24 April 2014) that its previously promotional call rate of 79c\/minute on its Pay Per Second prepaid price plan will be made permanent from 7 May, 2014.<\/p>\n
The required paperwork to make the rate permanent has been lodged with the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa), MTN said.<\/p>\n
This announcement that the rate is being made permanent follows 10 days after MTN first introduced the reduced rate as a promotional offer, which was initially set to expire in July 2014.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur customers require certainty that MTN will maintain the most competitively-priced voice tariffs in the industry \u2013 right into the foreseeable future,\u201d MTN\u2019s chief marketing officer, Brian Gouldie said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is why we have acted swiftly to lodge the required paperwork with Icasa, to give our customers surety that this rate is not merely available on a promotional basis, but is part of our long-term pricing strategy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gouldie said that the 79c\/minute call rate will be a permanent tariff on the MTN Pay Per Second prepaid price plan from 7 May 2014.<\/p>\n
Those who wish to remain on MTN\u2019s Zone Per Second, Muziq, or discontinued Call Per Second prepaid price plans can get the 79c\/minute rate by buying an MTN PayAsYouGo voice bundle, the network said.<\/p>\n
In addition to its existing R7, R12, and R17 bundles, MTN has introduced a R35 bundle. Each bundle only lasts a few days, and offers some SMS messages, data, and on-network minutes in addition to the 79c\/minute call rate.<\/p>\n
MTN has decreased the number of on-network minutes that used to be included with the bundles, but in the case of the R17 bundle increased the data allocation from 20MB to 30MB.<\/p>\n
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