MTN has dropped its international call rates, with contract customers saving up to 29% and prepaid customers saving up to 60%, depending on the call destination.
The mobile operator has also standardised its international call charges, with subscribers billed on a per-second basis, regardless of whether they are on contract or prepaid.
It has created a simpler, transparent rate structure, which allows customers to calculate how much a call is going to cost them before they make the call, the mobile operator says in a media statement. This ensures there are no nasty surprises when clients receive their monthly bills, it adds.
"The reduction of MTN`s international calling rates and the new simplified rate structure enables our customers to make that international call when they want to - whether it is for business or to a loved one," says MTN consumer segments GM Donovan Smith.
MTN says it will also run a promotion whereby customers pay R1.99 per minute for international calls to the UK, US, Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia and Zimbabwe.
The promotion will run from next week Monday until 3 April, and applies to both contract and Pay As You Go customers. However, it does not apply to international roaming, where an MTN customer travels to another country and is able to make and receive calls.
According to Vodacom`s Web site, the mobile operator charges between 95c and R2.10, plus a Telkom peak or off-peak rate for international calls for its contract customers.
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