MTN denies Increasing prices of their vouchers
MTN Nigeria subscribers yesterday said the telecoms operator’s recharge cards are still being sold to them above the stated retail prices.
Recharge cards vendors have been adding
N10 or N20 to the price of each MTN recharge card denomination in the
last two weeks, a development dealers blamed on MTN who, they said, had
increased the prices at which it used to sell the cards to them.
MTN had denied increasing the retail prices of its recharge cards, saying any variance from the authorised face value of recharge cards is without MTN’s knowledge or authority.
Many subscribers and vendors spoken to by Daily Trust yesterday confirmed that N10 or N20 is still being added on various denominations of the cards.
Uche Sunny, a journalist, told Daily Trust in Abuja that some vendors in the city centre have stopped the addition but those in the satellite towns have not.
He said: “I believe the vendors or dealers would not have been adding the extra amounts if MTN had not jerked up its cards prices. So, MTN should do something now or they will lose me as their customer.”
But MTN’s Corporate Services Executive Wale Goodluck said: “We have not effected a price increase and the retail prices of the various denominations of our recharge cards and recharge vouchers remain the same. The recharge vouchers come in the following denominations: N1, 500, N750, N400, N200 and N100.”
MTN had denied increasing the retail prices of its recharge cards, saying any variance from the authorised face value of recharge cards is without MTN’s knowledge or authority.
Many subscribers and vendors spoken to by Daily Trust yesterday confirmed that N10 or N20 is still being added on various denominations of the cards.
Uche Sunny, a journalist, told Daily Trust in Abuja that some vendors in the city centre have stopped the addition but those in the satellite towns have not.
He said: “I believe the vendors or dealers would not have been adding the extra amounts if MTN had not jerked up its cards prices. So, MTN should do something now or they will lose me as their customer.”
But MTN’s Corporate Services Executive Wale Goodluck said: “We have not effected a price increase and the retail prices of the various denominations of our recharge cards and recharge vouchers remain the same. The recharge vouchers come in the following denominations: N1, 500, N750, N400, N200 and N100.”