Etisalat Slashes Roaming Tariff for Customers on Hajj 2013

Etisalat Nigeria, fastest growing and most innovative telecommunications company, , has announced another amazing promo for its customers travelling for this year’s Hajj in Saudi Arabia.

According to the network, from September 1 to November 30, its new and existing customers travelling to Saudi Arabia to perform the holy pilgrimage will have the opportunity to enjoy highly discounted rates on local calls in Saudi Arabia, calls to Nigeria, SMS and data services.

Disclosing this, Lucas Dada, director, Business Segments, Etisalat Nigeria, said the Etisalat Hajj Promo will give customers on the network great discounts on outgoing calls to Nigeria at N30 per minute, local calls within Saudi Arabia at N30 per minute and N20 per SMS, with a data package for as low as 1 kobo per KB for all pay as you go data plans.

In addition, he said, all incoming calls and SMS received in the holy land during the promo period will be totally free of charge.

According to him, the promo which is in its fourth year was designed to help customers stay in touch with their family, friends and business associates in several places across the globe including Saudi Arabia at a very low cost.

“The Hajj Special enables customers seamlessly and conveniently stay connected to family and friends while performing Hajj by providing heavily discounted rates on calls to Nigeria, local calls in Saudi, SMS and data services,” he said.

Under the promo, customers can also conveniently travel with recharge cards as well as receive e-top up from family and friends in Nigeria.

In addition to the friendlier call tariffs, Lucas added, the Etisalat Hajj Promo also offers its prepaid customers data roaming internet bundle packages.

“The prepaid hajj data bundles can be bought in Nigeria before proceeding for Hajj, or while in Saudi Arabia. However, usage of the bundles will only commence when the customer arrives in Saudi Arabia and are valid for 30 days from the day of purchase,” Lucas explained.

Subscribers can text the codes *, *295*2# and *295*3# for 100 and 200MB, at N1000 and N1500 respectively.

Customers who want to subscribe for a larger amount of data will need to dial *295*4# for 500 MB and *295*5# for 1 GB at N3,000 and N5,000 respectively.

Postpaid customers must visit an Etisalat experience centre to pay a security deposit and request for roaming services before embarking on their trip.

To enjoy this offer both Prepaid and Postpaid customers must roam on the Mobily Network in Saudi Arabia.