27th April, 2012
Leading telecoms operator, Globacom, yesterday announced its new roaming service which offers a uniform local tariff and allows the use of local Glo recharge cards in any visited Glo network country.
Called UniWorld, this service enables both prepaid and postpaid subscribers in Nigeria, Benin Republic and Ghana to enjoy seamless unbroken communication at uniform affordable rates in the different countries.
Announcing the new offer at a press conference held at Globacom’s headquarters in Lagos, Executive Director, Adewale Sangowawa, said that UniWorld unifies the three Glo network countries by creating a Virtual Home Environment which allows seamless communications at transparent affordable rates across the borders.
Postpaid and Prepaid Subscribers can now recharge with local Glo recharge cards in Nigeria, Ghana or Benin while roaming and enjoy all roaming services at very affordable rates. According to him, subscribers who roam across the three countries will be charged the same uniform localized rate irrespective of where they are calling from. Customer’s bills will be rated in naira, cedi or CFA depending on subscriber’s Glo home country.
He explained that the UniWorld concept was to enable Glo subscribers to enjoy an unbroken connection across the three countries.
“With UniWorld, Glo subscribers in our three operating countries will enjoy a uniform local tariff across Nigeria, Ghana and Benin denominated in the currency of your home network. For instance, if a Glo Benin Republic subscriber comes to Nigeria, he will pay the same unified uniform local rates as when he is roaming on Glo Benin and vice versa,” Sangowawa said.
Besides the local tariffs for roaming, Glo has also made recharging much easier as all its subscribers roaming in any of the Glo networks can enjoy the flexibility of recharging with local Glo recharge cards in his visited destination.
Prior to the launch of UniWorld, a subscriber roaming across the three networks had to load his line with local recharge cards from his home network before the trip. Alternatively, he would call home to ask someone to scratch and send him a recharge PIN number. But with UniWorld service offering all this stress has been eliminated.
“We recognise the strong economic and cultural ties as well as the high movement of people across these three countries where we have our footprint, and conceptualised the UniWorld service offering to boost communication in the region as it makes mobile telephony while roaming stress-free and affordable,” he concluded.
—Henry Ojelu