MTN cuts call rates

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MTN today announced that it has cut call rates on the MTN One Rate PayAsYouGo price plan.  According to the company this price reduction enables MTN subscribers to make calls all day across all networks for less than 3c per second.

“This new price reduction makes this the lowest per second call rate during peak times in South Africa,” MTN said in a press statement.  “With a significant reduction in call rates, MTN customers can now benefit from savings of up to 40% on calls made throughout the day.”

MTN further announced that it has reduced the rate of its SMS service to 50c per SMS to any number at any time. “MTN is also including free services such full voicemail with notifications, one free SMS every day, and seven free Callbacks daily,” the company added.

“Customers are often led to believe that paying for a full minute when you have talked only for a few seconds is a good deal but now we are changing all of that. With the new MTN One Rate price plan customers are charged per second, so if you speak for 20 seconds, you only pay for 20 seconds,” says Donovan Smith, General Manager of Consumer Marketing at MTN SA.

According to MTN the cost structure is simple – one second is less than 3c and a single SMS is 50c. Sending an MMS will cost 90c. 

These rates will apply at any time of the day.