MTN has announced a new pre-paid credit service called ‘Ihereze’, that gives access to advance airtime to its subscribers in Rwanda.
‘Ihereze’ is a value added service that allows MTN pre-paid subscribers to borrow airtime on credit from as low as Rwf50 to as high as Rwf1,000 and pay back later. The service has been introduced to facilitate subscribers who can run out of airtime and might need to make urgent calls or SMS or even browse their mobile Internet.
The customer is required to send a request through a predefined short code *151# which will provide them with the denominations of airtime available.
The service will then allow the subscriber to borrow the advance airtime, make that very important call/send that important email or message and pay later.
“MTN Rwanda trusts our clients and we can afford to lend them when they are in an emergency and they pay back later. Very often the need to make a call arises when a subscriber is not able to top up conventionally like late at night, in traffic, without loose change or even in the middle of an important call. The service offers absolute convenience, whenever a MTN subscriber needs airtime,” Robert Rwakabogo, the Snr Manager Marketing Operations.
“Ihereze is inexpensive in absolute and relative costs, because quite often the total costs of physical recharge is higher due to the inconvenience of having to drive or walk to the nearest kiosk to buy credit in an emergency situation. With the varied amounts we are offering MTN subscribers can be comfortable with short-term nano-airtime advances,” he added.
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