No Mobile Roaming Charges for12 Africa Countries!
"Prepaid customers can recharge their phones with local recharge cards while travelling in any of the 'One Network' countries," he declared, stressing that account balance would be available to subscribers in their own home currency as well as access the customer careline and voicemail using familiar home country short codes.
Mr. Ligali added that subscribers would not have to pay for received calls while travelling outside their immediate country domain.
The Celtel boss pointed out that the 'one network' service has been activated for both prepaid and post-paid subscribers on the network.
"You can use this service immediately, no registration is required and there is no need to switch tariffs before you leave your home country," he explained.
Mobile phone service provider Celtel has expanded its roaming service offer to 12 African countries, enabling half of continent's mobile phone subscribers to communicate across national borders without incurring extra costs.
The countries are:
- Burkina Faso
- Chad
- Rep Congo
- Dem Rep Congo
- Gabon
- Kenya
- Sudan
- Malawi
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Sierra Leone
- Tanzania
- Uganda
- Zambia
AfricaNews:
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To read further, click on the links below:
Celtel Press Release:
http://www.celtel.com/en/news/press-release59/index.html
Allafrica News:
http://allafrica.com/stories/200711230689.html
Business Daily Africa:
http://www.bdafrica.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4463&Itemid=5822
Daily Trust, Abuja:
http://dailytrust.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5446&Itemid=45
Celtel, represented in 15 African countries, was bought by Kuwait's MTC for US$3.4 billion in 2005.
