The country’s leading comminications service company, Airtel Zambia limited , has commended the Zambian government for maintaining a favourable market environment.
Managing Director Fayaz King says his company will for this reason continue launching exciting products as the market for doing business in the country is conducive.
Mr. King was speaking in Lusaka yesterday when his company launched an extraordinary double sim in one pack offer, a first of its kind in Zambia and Africa.
The 2-sim offer comes with two consecutive numbers in one single starter pack and will enable Airtel customers to enjoy cheap calls between the two numbers and free sms’s for the lifespan of the sim.
The product will also offer 50% discount on all calls between the two customers and two free sms’s every day upon buying airtime for K10, 000.
The product also has innovative value added services like push e-mail, Ring Back Tunes, news alert & facebook notifications will also be offered at a price of K10,00 per month.
Customers on the dual Sim product will also have access to Push –email, a facility aimed at bringing revolution to the country adding that customers who can not afford phones like blackberry or i-phone can access email on ordinary handsets.
Meanwhile, Mr. King noted that the launch of the double Sim product also comes in line with today’s theme for the celebration of the World Telecommunications and Information Society Day (WTISD).
The theme which is dubbed ‘Better Life in Rural Communities with ICTs’ is aimed at providing solutions to many problems faced in rural areas among them being increase in illiteracy levels and unemployment thereby reducing on urban migration.
Mr. King noted that the double Sim Product will enable access to internet in rural areas hence giving the rural community in all the districts around the country affordable internet services.
ZANIS
Soundz good, but how many sim cardz are we going to have?
And after 5 or so years when you have made your profits under certain tax exempts you hit the road and change company name from Celtel to Zain to Airtel to Mobile Fimo Fimo…..Take Zedians for a ride.
I understand the Zambian Diaspora Business Group (Zambiadiaspora.com) is to make a subtantial investment in Zambia. This can only be good. This is entirely made of ordinary Zambians prepared to make a change. Not like some people only good at spouting from the roof tops.
Offcourse the busines environment is favourable for the company that gets exempted from taxation for 5 years while charging users through the roof. No brainer really
This is the company that over charges for rotten services provided. U are luck u chaps who just came with laptops and jackets cheatin zeadians that u are investors, most people i know are on your evil network, i would not spend a pin on you. How can a company be one min this, the other min that.
Baf? color w?th poor ?nternet. These cr?m?nals pay the?r workers peanuts
You are just a bunch of thieves. These f00ls have been changing names from one to the next. From Telecel to Celtel from Celtel to Zain from Zain to Airtel and now it will be from Airtel to Amafitel. At every point they are given tax exemption so these f00ls have not been paying any tax every time they are changing and still overcharging poor Zambia. We are not impressed with your s.tupid products you thieves.  We are watching you bachimbwi imwe! I end here!
# 6 is 100 right! even the deals aren’t as good as they seem. Those cheats need more competition so as to lower the prices even further. I was surprised at how much Zambians are being charged for calls and texts. We are so lucky in the west calls are dirt cheap because of competition.