Rise and Fall of MTN Zone Tariff Plan

MTN Zone tariff plan undoubtedly at some point in time rose to stardom and became one of the most cherished tariff plans by many across all the major GSM networks providers in the country if not even the most loved.

And you might want to start asking why so many people embraced the MTN Zone tariff plan more than other plans across MTN network and even when compared to other tariff plans of other competing networks.

Now, the reason might not be far-fetched as it is the wish of everybody that owns a mobile phone connected to a network to make calls and send SMS at the best or cheapest price rate ever both when calling on-net and off-net networks, and that was exactly what MTN Zone started offering to the teaming population of hungry GSM network users right from the time the plan was introduced by MTN.

MTN Zone Tariff Plan was the plan that allowed MTN subscribers to make very cheap calls both to MTN networks and off-net networks at unbeatable rate that is often determined by the cellular network available in your present location.

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And with that, most MTN Zone subscribers were able to enjoy cheap call rates at different point in time and at different locations across the country; which ranges from making calls at very low rate of 4K/sec and sometimes it rises up a bit to 8K/sec, 12K/sec, 16k/sec and hardly does it get to 20K/sec and 24K/sec and SMS are still charged at the harmonized flat rate of N4 to all networks.

And that is how it has been for quite a long time since it was introduced and really competed favourably with other on-net and off-net tariff plans until this present time.

For any MTN prepaid subscribers that want to migrate to MTN Zone, he/she was to dial *135*1# and start enjoying all the benefits that come with MTN Zone tariff plan.

Yes, today the tide is gradually changing or we can conclude that is has changed completely and the sun no longer rise and set from east to west but the reversal is now the case at the mention of MTN Zone.

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Presently, different complaints about the one most cherished tariff plans kept on pouring on daily bases, ranging from that the MTN Zone tariff plan now no longer drops below 12K/sec to that most time now it is pegged at 24K/sec in most locations and all these are contrary to the MTN Zone Tariff plan rate that they are familiar with in the past.

Many folks out there are now getting fed up with MTN Zone tariff plans and are now 100% ready and willing to port unlike before when they often find it difficult to try out other plans apart from Zone.

Sometimes I tend to wonder and ask myself if all these are happening to consolidated the saying that “the only constant thing in life is change”

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Now MTN Zone tariff plan I know will be finally nailed to the coffin in no time as all the major 4 GSM networks providers have recently introduced what arguably could be termed as the cheapest call tariff plans ever since they all started operating in the country.

And the these new tariff plans are all similar in their call rates charges and for MTN it can be seen in the new MTN True Talk Plus, while for Airtel it is the new Airtel Smart Talk and for Glo it is in the new Glo Gbam Plus and finally Etisalat has their new Etisialat Easylife 4.0 Limited Edition.

And since low priced call rate plans are the major determinant of the direction consumers tends to shift towards, we can now affirmatively tell you that MTN Zone tariff plan will after now no longer see the light of the day.