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Tigo Ghana has redesigned its internet packages data packages to suit the lifestyles of the various categories of its customers.
Marketing Manager, Jesse Agyepong told journalists that through
research, they have identified various categories of internet users for
specific purposes, so they want to encourage each of those categories of
users to do so at the most affordable rates without any hindrance.
“We noticed that some are avowed social media users, some like use
the internet for education, some for entertainment and some for other
purposes so we have re-designed our data packages and priced them in a
way to suit each category of users,” he said.
He said they have not necessarily changed their existing affordable
data packages but each has been targeted at the identified categories to
ensure each user derived optimum benefit from the Tigo data network by
choosing the appropriate package.
The prepaid internet packages on Tigo’s website show they have four
packages that last for a day, two that last for a week and two others
that last for a week. Each have different prices and different volumes
of data.
There is Daily Lite, which is 50MB for 99Gp; Daily Xtra is 150MB for
GHC2.49 and there is Daily Lite (Auto Renewal), which is 100MB for only
99Gp, as well as Daily Xtra (Auto Renewal) at GHC2.49 for 300MB. But the
auto renewal packages require the user to agree to an automatic
deduction of the daily rate of 99Gp or GHS2.49 from their primary
balance once the existing package expires.
The weekly packages are Weekly Lite, which is 400MB at GHC4.49 and
Weekly Xtra, which is 600MB of data at GHC5.99, while the monthly
packages are Monthly Lite at GHS29.99 for 5.632GB and Monthly Xtra at
GHC49.99 for 10.240GB of data.
The company said each of the eight packages are designed to suite
particular lifestyles so when the customers approaches customer service
and states what they want to suit their lifestyle, the will be advised
and be given the most suitable package to make them enjoy their
lifestyles without any worries of running out of data capacity.
Tigo is also assuring customers that it is on course to meet their
National Communication Authority’s requirement for telcos to provide
full 3G coverage for all district capitals.
“We are the only telco that has come very close to meeting that
requirement and I can assure you that sooner than later we will have 3G
coverage in all district capitals in the country,” Jesse Agyepong said.
Subscriber base numbers from the NCA shows that while Tigo’s data
customers increased from about 1.5million in January to almost 2million
in June 2014, its overall subscriber base dropped by 24,010 over the
same period.
Meanwhile, Tigo is the biggest winner on the Mobile Number
Portability (MNP), with almost 250,000 subscriber gains through MNP. And
Tigo is arguably the moment vigilant in the fight against SIM box
fraud.
Some industry experts have explained that because Tigo is quick to
detect and deactivate SIMs being used for fraudulent call bypass, its
subscriber base tend to drop quickly, while the other less vigilant
telco continue to shore up their subscriber base with call bypass SIMs.
Tigo is the third biggest operator in Ghana by subscribers.
Credit: Myjoyonline
