First Wireless Eliminates Access Charge
Following its full commercial launch First Wireless has announced official tariffs and rates for its range of services.
A major highlight in the new tariff regime is that the company offers free monthly access unlike other wireless phone operators. An official said this was made possible with the deployment of a state-of-the-art billing system, and a policy to make services affordable.
Another major highlight in the new tariff regime is that prepaid cards in the denomination of N5,000, automatically credits the user with an extra N500 credit upon loading the top up card.
Mr. Reuben Muoka, Head of Corporate Affairs, in a statement last night, said the details of the rates approved by the company apply to users of portable phones, or the desktops. He said local calls from portable phones to other networks, cost same as desktop phones. Calls to GSM networks from First Wireless phones will cost N28 per minute for peak period and N24.64 for off peak periods. Calls within First Wireless network has been pegged at N4.00 per minute for peak periods and N3.52 for off peak periods. Calls to other PTOs from First Wireless cost N6.00 per minute and N5.28 for off peak periods. Local calls to NITEL costs N6.50 per minute for peak periods
and 5.72 per minute during off peak.
On the long distance routes, intra-zonal calls like call from Lagos to Ondo or Oyo states cost N 12 per minute of peak period and N10.56 for off peak periods.
Intra zonal calls, like calls from Lagos to Abuja, Kaduna or Maiduguri, costs N22 per minute for peak periods and N19.36 for off peak periods.
On the international routes, First Wireless has adopted a three band tariff arrangement where in Band A, comprising of USA, Western Europe, Canada and South Africa costs N39 per minute for peak periods and N34.71 for off peak periods. In the Band B, comprising of the rest of Africa, Middle East, Eastern Europe and Asia, calls to these countries cost N44 per minute for peak period and N39.16 for off peak. The band C comprising of the rest parts of the world costs N49 per minute peak time and N43.61 per minute of off peak.
With the availability of prepaid cards ranging from N500, N1,500, N3,000 and N5,000 denominations, all the more than 5,000 new subscribers in the new network are to be migrated to the prepaid card regime while all those interested in the post paid regime will fulfill some registration and identification requirements.
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