Zain Zambia limited has announced its new ground breaking flat tariff rate which will see a cross network tariff drop by more than fifty percent.
Zain Zambia Managing Director, Fayaz King says the new tariff dubbed one time will effectively replace all current tariff lines.
Mr King says the new tariff becomes the most affordable way of communication in Zambia as it will allow clients access other networks at no extra charge.
On its new tariff Zain customers will enjoy a tariff deduction of up to 8 kwacha per second on a friends and family tariff.
This is according to a statement issued to MUVI TV news today.
the chinese will temper with your network,dont you know that you are putting on the line their double simcard phone business.fyalapwa value.just one simcard kubomba
This is welcome news indeed. Just get Zain Sim card ninsi yabalansa chapwa. Good development and progress pa Zed!
zain is still the moct expensive network. I hope lapgreen takes away their clients.
It annoys me that despite the lousy service and high tariffs consumers are still swayed by their marketing.
Get on another network if you want zain to continue reducing tarrifs one cannot even have a decent conversation on zain
Zain should disclose the full cost of calls, instead of giving us this piecemeal information of the reductions. In the final analysis, they will still be the most expensive network ever!
#3 jade you are correct zain is still the most exp-ve network pa zed k8 per mn.imagine 1 minute =k480
why note k8 per minute? here in europe network services they are more like free……..lobe
The k13/second (k780/MIN)is during off peak. Peak hours is k21/sec(1260/MIN).
@ k780/ $0.16 PER MIN
@k1260/$0.26 PER MIN
Am I correct with my calculations?
And you see they dont even disclose that K13/sec is only during off peak. Taking Zambians for a ride!
MTN and Cell Z should invest in marketing like Zain has, if they are to increase their market share because their rates are cheaper.
its high time you reduced such rates..K8 is still high..Zambia is a 3rd world country..
Well done MTN!! You have really showed these greedy Celtel people how to do business
Chizungu nacho!It has to be.. you have really shown..
Thanks #6Jade for your rough but true cost breakdown. Indeed too many lies being peddled by these phone companies.. I was in zambia a month ago and couldn’t believe high tariff’s. i had to make international calls back to the office and i swear it costs at least K2500 PER MIN.. I needed at least K20pin scratch card to talk for 5 minutes or so.. An I thought these operators had claimed that tehy had reduced international call rates by 50% a couple of mponth back!!
My observation is that in Zambia generally information and communication services are expensive. Be it Internet, telephone, DSTV etc! I was shocked to find out that monthly cost of DSTV in India is 400 rupees( 40 000 kwacha). Most internet cafe’s will charge at most 20 rupees for an hour(2000 kwacha).Same with telephone recharge very affordable. India is a developing country just like Zambia but why the large difference.
#11 Obi, yes India is a developing country like Zambia BUT (very big BUT) it has almost a billion people. Imagine ZAIN was in India and had a similar market share of roughly 75%. Now 75% of 1b pipo is 750m. If they were to make $1 profit per person per month, they still go home with a colossal $750m a month. In Zambia, given same conditions, that would be around $3m (the actual number of customers).
Zambia has a small population. There r certain things we can’t achieve just like that.
affordable Communication is key to development,and Zambia lacks that
#12 You are very correct. Sometimes it seems that one has to state the blindingly obvious in order to get a point across. There are some cities in India that have a bigger population than that of Zambia. Indeed there are slums within cities in India that have more people living in them than the whole of Lusaka. That is why for Africa, regional integration is key as it creates large markets which bring about the advantage of economy of scale.
At one time Zain (cell Z by then), confirmed that they had made more profits in Zambia than they made in South Africa and yet south Africa”s economy is much more stronger than Zambia. Bala tulila amasuku pamutwe ba mambala!!!
Zambians will always be taken for granted.
Zain is very expensive and they are squeezing as they have the largest network. In the meanwhile, Airtel, which has taken over Zain, charges about K33 per minute in India