ZAMTEL has reduced its local tariffs applicable to the Family and Friends Tariff Plan by 50 percent with immediate effect.
This development comes barely two months after the telecoms giant reduced its international call rates to selected destinations by the same margin.
Company chief commercial officer Amon Jere said the reduction in call rates is meant to make communication even more affordable in Zambia and help bridge the communication divide.
“The rates were previously K15 per second during peak periods and K10 per second during off peak. We have since reduced these to almost half during both peak and off peak times,” Mr Jere said.
He said this in a statement issued in Lusaka yesterday.
The Zamtel Family and Friends is a closed user group value addition service that allows customers to enlist up to six numbers of their closest family and friends to stay in touch at reduced rates.
Mr Jere said since re-branding in April, the firm has continued to register positive growth now averaging 39 percent for mobile subscribers and more than 100 percent in fixed broadband internet customers since the introduction of the Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL).
And the company signed up to be the official communications partner at the just ended AGOA Forum in Lusaka, turning the entire Mulungushi International Conference Centre into a hot spot offering high broadband internet speeds to delegates, the media centre and secretariat.
In the last six months, Zamtel has launched an unprecedented number of products and services including mobile internet, M-top up, Call Conference Bridge, ADSL and Zamtel Tunes.
This is besides the on-going Talk & Talk Extra promotion and free internet browsing at the Zamtel flagship retail outlets at Manda Hill, Cairo Shopping Mall and Crossroads.
[Zambia Daily Mail]
Try calling from a cell phone to a land phone and vice versa in Zambia. Has anybody figured it out? Because I couldn’t when I was there recently and none of the peeps could either.
Great news ,thats the way forward if our country has to develop economically,apparently that plan is in place here in Australia as well which is very interesting.Welldone Zamtel!!!!!!!!
Pipo lets try to use some of these lnnovative networks,lets not be stuck with one network as if its a political party
Well done done you chaps yo mobile internet is a mockery. . . .
Good news. Fruits of privatization.
in ZAMTEL…out AIRTEL
Gr8 new Amon Jere and Company. I can see you are using all the skills that u employed and mastered at ZAIN/AIRTEL. I always tell people that a company
Gr8 new Amon Jere and Company. I can see you are using all the skills that u employed and mastered at ZAIN/AIRTEL. I always tell people that a company is the people and not the board.
Amon Jere looks like Dr. Francis Chigunta!!!!!
I doubt these tariffs
The thought that bothers me is whether such a decision was made in good faith or is it MMD trying to score political points as the Presidential and Parliamentary elections approaches. If it is the former then good for Zambia.
ZAMTEL breathing again! I am sure some people prayed for its down fall so they can point fingers. Let us develop our country gentlemen, those not interested, leave them behind they will follow when too late.
No. 9 (John). That is true. Amon Jere is Dr. Chigunta and Dr. Chigunta is Amon Jere. Who resembles the other? Is Chigunta resembling Jere or Jere resembling Chigunta?
Sata and his bunch of clowns dont like such news. That is why there are so few negative comments. What Sata and his clowns wish for is ZAMTEL to fail and people to suffer so that they can point their old, frail and skeletal fingers and say MWAMONA. Too bad god is there for us all Mr Sata. Your time will come in yo after life.
“i made about 60 sprints” why not say “i made 55 sprints”. be specific ba jere. Well done,we need competition.