I just found this on Airtel's Twitter page

"@AirtelNigeria: Dial *948# to get unlimited access to WhatsApp for just N100/month.Chat with your friends all day, share those memorable pictures & videos"

www.nairaland.com/attachments/1039603_airtel_jpgd48dc2b1df6cfa64a356dc6aff8a63b9
https://twitter.com/AirtelNigeria/status/316601838973616128

Wow
that's good news

hope its true

i have started considering getting another airtel sim after i have threw my last 3 airtels sims away. you guys dey make sence die-die. although, i don't Whatapp.

Hmmmm trying to pull customer nice 1

Also offering free mobile TV, where are these people taking bandwidth from that they can't reduce the price of their bundled from 1.2k for 1gig to N100 per gig

Looks like the NCC Mobile Portability is kicking telecom providers to the nerve, everyone is about to seat up.

Competition is good and healthy for the economy, those who can't compete should bow out.

manny4life: Looks like the NCC Mobile Portability is kicking telecom providers to the nerve, everyone is about to seat up.

Competition is good and healthy for the economy, those who can't compete should bow out.

i think so too.

as in 100 naira to go up where

manny4life: Looks like the NCC Mobile Portability is kicking telecom providers to the nerve, everyone is about to seat up.

Competition is good and healthy for the economy, those who can't compete should bow out.

Hope any of that won't end more staff in the labour market again

when I joined airtel I know I joined for good

Forgive my ignorance but i thought whatsapp was free

seunlayi: i have started considering getting another airtel sim after i have threw my last 3 airtels sims away. you guys dey make sence die-die. although, i don't Whatapp.

dad won't be proud of u

ZUBY77: Forgive my ignorance but i thought whatsapp was free

Of course it is free for the 1st year, and then $1 per year thereafter so I wonder why people are rejoicing over an obvious rip-off deal

ZUBY77: Forgive my ignorance but i thought whatsapp was free

free for one year from the company"whatsapp" but not on the network one is using.

manny4life: Looks like the NCC Mobile Portability is kicking telecom providers to the nerve, everyone is about to seat up.

Competition is good and healthy for the economy, those who can't compete should bow out.

The mobile portability is useless since you can only migrate once in six months after filling many forms. I was thinking you can just dial a code and migrate to any network of your choice atleast every 30 days or less. They might as well make it so someone can migrate within 24 hours maybe for N500 or more to avoid the abuse of the system. Going from one point to another to fill form is a no go area for busy people like us.

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OCTAVO: I just found this on Airtel's Twitter page

www.nairaland.com/attachments/1039603_airtel_jpgd48dc2b1df6cfa64a356dc6aff8a63b9
https://twitter.com/AirtelNigeria/status/316601838973616128

Some peepz jst can't read sha...N100/month means you will b charged N100 MONTHLY for using whatsapp. so wats "free" about it? its jst an advert language used to confuse dummies

ZUBY77: Forgive my ignorance but i thought whatsapp was free

WhatsApp is free application, as in free to download, install and use. However, it transmits data over the internet connection. There, the provider (in this case Airtel) can control what applications use the internet. In this particular case, if you subscribe for the general internet use, you pay a lot more, and if oyu subscribe for WhatsApp only, you pay N100 per month for the data transfers, not for the application itself.

[size=16pt]wake me when they start 100naira monthly BIS[/size]

[size=15pt]JESUS CHRIST... N100 for a whole 1 month THAT IS GOOD 30DAYS ... [/size]

comm: Hope any of that won't end more staff in the labour market again

Sorry, rather it will end more labour market into staff.
Hehehe so you think Mtn staffs are not complaining about their useless network??

this is still rip off. You guys should not stand for this

1forall:

Of course it is free for the 1st year, and then $1 per year thereafter so I wonder why people are rejoicing over an obvious rip-off deal

SIMPLE, just delete & re-download it after 1 year, you will get another year free.

I hear u.

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Some peepz jst can't read sha...N100/month means you will b charged N100 MONTHLY for using whatsapp. so wats "free" about it? its jst an advert language used to confuse dummies

The word 'free' does not appear in the advert. See this m0r0n that's saying people can't read. Oh, the Irony!

a1solution: The mobile portability is useless since you can only migrate once in six months after filling many forms. I was thinking you can just dial a code and migrate to any network of your choice atleast every 30 days or less. They might as well make it so someone can migrate within 24 hours maybe for N500 or more to avoid the abuse of the system. Going from one point to another to fill form is a no go area for busy people like us.

Are you serious? Truly money has changed hands. Who in Nigeria has time to fill form just to change network and retain number. Here I was thinking they are gonna give us a code which we can dial to migrate at a small charge of 500 naira or even 1k. Those NCC guys are mumu of de highest order

ZUBY77: Forgive my ignorance but i thought whatsapp was free

Yeah it's free. But don;t you still have to pay for internet access to use it? That's where N100 per month comes in

holhuwaphemie: [b][/b]


Some peepz jst can't read sha...N100/month means you will b charged N100 MONTHLY for using whatsapp. so wats "free" about it? its jst an advert language used to confuse dummies

Yeah it's free. But don;t you still have to pay for internet access to use it? That's where N100 per month comes in

Loool. As far as I'm concerned this is still a scam.

1forall:

Of course it is free for the 1st year, and then $1 per year thereafter so I wonder why people are rejoicing over an obvious rip-off deal

So because it's free, the internet access you use it with is free also abi?

1forall:

Of course it is free for the 1st year, and then $1 per year thereafter so I wonder why people are rejoicing over an obvious rip-off deal

So you call a $1 payment a rip-off....

That's not up to #200 for a year.

Come to google play, you'll see apps not even as useful as whatsapp costing up to $16.

MuyiGL:

So because it's free, the internet access you use it with is free also abi?

Don't mind him, he's a learner!