MTN Uganda has today taken to social media and SMS to remind their customers about the new change in mobile money sending rates which ushered in a new rate and bid an end to the reduced sending rate campaign which started back on June 17th.
The new changes are effective tomorrow 7th September and at least see a 50% percent reduction in sending rates across the different tiers from UGX 500 to UGX 7,000,000 for daily transactions with a minimum charge of UGX 500 and a high of UGX 1500 for sending money across the MTN network.
What should be noted is that the withdrawal charges are still unchanged and a lot of customers have voiced their concerns about it as well and others have gone as far as calling it outrages. Another notable change is that the maximum account balance is slashed to UGX 15 million from UGX 20 million and the daily max transaction has been dipped to UGX 7 million.
The new rates still don’t comfort a lot of customers as many users feel they overspend when withdrawing money including the money mobile tax which makes the charges shoot up. MTN Uganda has recently brought back the mid-week data bundle package Gaga Wednesday exclusive for Android users at the moment and has a new data campaign dubbed as Dabolo which see customer enjoy 100% bonus on daily data packages.
This might not be what we need as consumers but it’s one step to having something affordable from the yellow team and inclusive. Here is the new mobile money sending rates from MTN Uganda.
