Airtel Kenya has today launched out of bundle rates, which comes after Safaricom launched a similar product some time ago. These have a new tagline which is #BeSurewithAirtel
In the previous system, Airtel charged Kshs 4.3 per MB for out of bundle rates which meant that using 5MB of data cost you Kshs 21.50 or if you used 50MB, that would cost Kshs 215!
In the new system, that same 5MB of data will only cost you 1 KES while 50MB of data will only cost you 10 KES. They will also charge Kshs 2 per minute for calls. All you have to do is dial *544*2# according to Airtel.
This is a great move for the over 12 million Airtel customers who will get out of bundle data at cheaper rates.
This is a very smart move by Airtel to have ‘no expiry bundles’ without necessarily having no expiry bundles. By substantially lowering the price of out of bundle rates, Airtel customers can estimate how much their airtime would last them when they are online.
Revamped Amazing data bundles
Airtel is also revamping their Amazing Data Bundles. The company is now giving more data bundles for the same price. The Amazing Data bundles have an expiry period just like before, but now Airtel has decided to double the data offerings in some cases
Here are the new prices.
- 2GB for 99 daily
- Amazing 10 – 70MB (1 day)
- Amazing 20 – 200MB (1 day)
- Amazing 50 – 500 MB (1 day)
- Amazing 50 – 350 MB (7 days)
- Amazing 100 – 750MB (7 days)
- Amazing 300 – 3GB (30 days)
- Amazing 500 – 5GB (30 days)
- Amazing 1000 – 12GB (30 days)
- Amazing 1500 – 20GB (30 days)
- Amazing 2000 – 30GB (30 days)
- Amazing 3000 – 50GB (30 days)
- Amazing 3000 – 25 GB (3 months)
- Amazing 6000 – 55GB (3 months)
- Amazing 9000 – 90GB (3 months)
Below are the old Amazing Bundle rates.
- 2GB for 99 daily
- Amazing 10 – 40MB (Daily)
- Amazing 20 – 100 MB (Daily)
- Amazing 50 – 400 MB (Daily)
- Amazing 50 – 200 MB (Weekly)
- Amazing 100 – 500MB (Weekly)
- Amazing 250 – 2GB (Weekly)
- Amazing 500 – 6GB (Weekly)
- Amazing 300 – 1.5GB (monthly)
- Amazing 500 – 4GB (monthly)
- Amazing 1000 – 10GB (monthly)
- Amazing 1500 – 15GB (monthly)
- Amazing 2000 – 25GB (monthly)
- Amazing 3000 – 40GB (monthly)
With the new Amazing Bundle rates, Airtel is giving as much as double the amount of data in some bundles for the same price. This is great news for Airtel customers that regularly buy these bundles and they will be happy to get as much as 100% more data for the same price.
Airtel is also bundling free WhatsApp with a select number of bundles. This include the Amazing 20, 50, 100, 250, 300, 500, 1000, 1500, 2000, 3000 and the daily 2GB for 99 bundle. The 3 month bundle and the Amazing 10MB bundle lack the Free WhatsApp bundle. The Free WhatsApp bundle is capped at 50MB.
*CLARIFICATION*
We’ve made changes to the article that explains further the new out of bundle plans that Airtel introduced yesterday.
