Thursday 18 April 2013

Etisalat Crashes Blackberry Tariffs - Introduces Blackberry Absolute


Etisalat has scored another first after been able to crash the tariff for voice calls in Nigeria since 2009 by going further to crash the tariff of its BB plans.

The old Social plan has been discontinued and the Full BIS replaced with Blackberry Absolute Plan with the Complete retained.

Also the plans have both voice and non-voice variants. The non-voice you can have side by side other main packages while the voice plan is a standalone plan that gives subscribers advantage of making calls at a 20 kobo per second to all networks in Nigeria and 5 international destinations viz; US, Canada, India, China and Uk (fixed lines).


Below shows the different plans and their codes:

PRODUCT DETAILS
Plan
Absolute
Complete



Web based emails (Yahoo, gmail)
10
1
BlackBerry Emails (user@blackberry.etisalat.com)
Yes
Yes
BlackBerry Messenger BBM
Free
Free
Instant Messaging
Free
Free
Internet Browsing
Yes
Yes
Auto Renewal
Yes
Yes
Available as Postpaid
Yes
Yes
Activation Code for Voice Option
 (make calls at 20k/sec to all local carriers )
*499*1#
*499*3
Activation code for non-voice
(combine your plan with easylife 3.0)
*399*1#
SMS COM to 399

PRICES
BB Complete
Monthly
1000
Weekly
500
Daily
100
BB Absolute
Monthly
1500
Weekly
550
Daily
100

MIGRATION
Existing subscribers with auto renewal have been migrated to the new plans in the following pattern:

OLD PLAN
NEW PLAN
SELLING POINT
BlackBerry Social  
BlackBerry Complete
A saving of N300 and a service upgrade (1 email)

BlackBerry Complete
BlackBerry Absolute
Service upgrade (up to 10 emails)

BIS
BlackBerry Absolute
A 50% price slash, whilst retaining the same service



Standard Blackberry Plans (Non-voice)
PLAN
TIME
USSD CODE
SMS KEY WORD TO 399
Price

BlackBerry Absolute
Daily
*399*5#
N/A
100
Weekly
*399*6#
N/A
550
Monthly
*399*1#
BIS
1500
Blackberry Complete
Daily
NA
COD
100
Weekly
NA
COW
500
Monthly
NA
COM
1000


Blackberry Voice Plans
PLAN
TIME
USSD CODE
Price

BlackBerry Absolute
Daily
*499*5#
100
Weekly
*499*6#
550
Monthly
*499*1#
1500



Blackberry Complete
Daily
*499*3*2#
100
Weekly
*499*3*1#
500
Monthly
*499*3#
1000




1 comment:

  1. I want to port to Etisalat to enjoy their BB absolute. Pls explain to me the difference between voice and non-voice packages! Thanks.

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