Etisalat Excites Subscribers with New Opera Mini Bundles

Etisalat Nigeria has launched new customised Opera Mini Bundles which will give subscribers the opportunity to enjoy super-fast browsing on their mobile phones at affordable costs, as part of its commitment to providing world class and cost-friendly services to its various subscribers across the country.


Opera Mini 7 which is a browser that compresses data and loads faster is a first-of-its-kind to be launched in Nigeria and Etisalat Nigeria provides special Opera Mini bundles for Etisalat subscribers. It is accessible by over 5,000 mobile device models.

 
The bundle comes in two variants which customers can select from, namely the Social bundle and Sports bundle and operates on the latest Opera Mini browser version 7.

 
The Social bundle gives subscriber’s daily access to social networking sites - m.facebook.com, m.twitter.com and m.naijapals.com; while the Sports bundle gives subscriber’s daily access to m.goal.com, Opera Sport - http://sports.opera.com, and ESPN - http://m.espn.go.com all at N50/day.


Speaking on the new offerings, Wael Ammar, chief commercial officer, Etisalat Nigeria, said the introduction of the new service is to boost subscribers browsing experience.


According to him, the bundles are a result of research and customer feedback that the native browsers on their phones are often slow and do not format pages appropriately for mobile phones, making viewing of such pages small and boring.


“At Etisalat, listening to customers is a crucial part of our business which we take very seriously. We haven’t just launched the Opera Mini browser but have taken it a step further by creating data bundle plans for the convenience of our customers. We monitored the top visited sites via mobile and created data plans which will enable our subscribers enjoy all day browsing of those sites at an affordable daily fee. Based on our findings, we created the Social and Sports bundles. Our customers are in for an unparalleled experience with our 3.75G network and the Etisalat Opera Mini bundles”, he said.


Lucas Dada, Director, Products and Services, Etisalat Nigeria, said that for customers to take advantage of this service, they must first subscribe to the bundle and thereafter visit http://m.opera.com to download the browser for free.


“To subscribe for the Opera Mini Social bundle, subscribers should send the word ‘Social’ to the short code 343 and to subscribe for the Opera Mini Sports bundle, subscribers should send the word ‘Sports’ to the code 343,” he explained.


Subscribers who do not wish to purchase any of the bundles can simply download the Opera Mini browser at the normal data rates.


Etisalat within three years has provided superb broadband internet services to customers and is  still introducing more services that would enable customers enjoy interactions on the internet with their mobile devices.