Airtel unveils ‘Trybe’ for Nigerian youths

Emeka Ibemere

One of the big leading telecommunications operators, Airtel Nigeria, has unveiled another innovative offering; ‘Airtel Trybe’ specially designed to cater for the needs and lifestyle of the youth market segment.

Airtel Trybe is enhanced with features which offer youths the experience and benefits of staying connected to families, friends and their loved ones at all times and it also offers additional opportunities to customers for deriving maximum benefits from voice calls, SMS and data for social media platforms at affordable rates.  In addition to these there are also other amazing bonuses for new and existing customers who subscribe.

Speaking at the launch of the product in Lagos today, the company’s Chief Commercial Officer, Mr. Maurice Newa, said that the Telco has again demonstrated its passion for the youth, stressing that Airtel will continue to create innovative products and services as well as convenient platforms for customers to experience world-class telecoms services on the network.

He said: “Airtel realises the yearning of customers, especially the youths, to always stay online and remain connected to their loved ones, families, friends and associates. So with Airtel Trybe, a platform which not only offers affordable call and SMS rates, but also comes with huge attractive data plans , we have shown that we clearly and deeply care about providing opportunities for our customers to enjoy every moment on our network,”.

Speaking further, he noted that the Telco fully understands that communication and internet connectivity have become indispensable components of the 21^st century enabling business, education, entertainment, information, governance and other activities and is committed to becoming the leading internet company in Nigeria.

Customers can get on the Airtel Trybe package by dialing *312# or through SMS by sending YES to 312. To begin to enjoy the freebies, customers simply need to use up to N48 in a day with the first 2 minutes charged at N40k per/sec while other calls are charged at N20k/sec for on-net and N30k/sec for off-net calls.

Customers who make international calls will enjoy N30k/sec from the very first minute on calls to the United States of America, India, China, Canada and the United Kingdom (landlines).

They will also enjoy freebies after the first 120 seconds. The freebies include free 10 minutes Trybe-to-Trybe calls for each subscriber per day and another free voice calls offer from 11pm to 4.30am to other Airtel subscribers. In addition, subscribers get daily freebies to chat with unlimited access to Whatsapp, Twitter, Facebook and Blackberry Messenger (WFTB) valid for 2 days.

As part of the offering, Airtel Trybe comes with a special Campus Zone rate of 11k/sec for all local calls made to every network. This rate applies to calls made only in the campus of any Nigerian higher institution and it is designed to help students stay connected to their families, friends and loved ones.

Another interesting addition is that customers can also enjoy megabyte bonuses. There is free 5MB weekly bonus on N100 recharge and 15MBinstant bonus every week upon cumulative recharge of N200 per week to browse the internet, while new prepaid subscribers on Trybe enjoy additional bonus of up to 200 per cent on every recharge for calls or SMS to local networks.

A recharge of N500 and above attracts 200 per cent bonus, while N200 and N100 recharge attract 100 per cent and 50 per cent respectively.In addition, 50 per cent bonus on total week’s recharge (Monday to Friday) is given for Airtel-to-Airtel calls on Saturday and Sunday.The bonus is given instantly and valid for 7days.

As one of Airtel’s latest products designed to create unparalleled experience for customers, Trybe

gives a boost to the vision of the Telco to be Nigeria’s no 1 internet company.

Meanwhile, following the success of Airtel Red Hot promo, which was first introduced last year, leading Airtel Nigeria, has launched the second edition of the consumer promo, which has created life-changing opportunities for scores of Airtel customers to become instant millionaires.

For the second edition, Airtel Nigeria has raised the bar by offering a star prize of a brand new 2015 Range Rover. The promo will further produce one winner of one million naira daily while 100 lucky customers will each win N10, 000 daily for 60 days, through electronic draws. Every customer that participates in the promo will stand the chance of winning the star prize at the end of the promo. In addition to these exciting prizes, Airtel will be offering smart phones to 100 lucky customers every week and free airtime to over 5,000 customers.

Speaking on the consumer-reward initiative, Chief Commercial Officer, Airtel Nigeria, Mr. Maurice Newa, noted that Airtel continues to create platforms to enrich and empower its customers, noting that the Airtel Red Hot promo Season One was a success as it opened doors of fortune to new and existing customers. 

He said: “The second edition is bigger and bolder with lots of goodies for Airtel customers. This is another opportunity for our customers to become instant millionaires while others will step up their style by winning Smartphone and free talk time to chat with friends, family, business associates and loved ones.

 “Airtel Red Hot promo is another unique way of showing appreciation all Airtel customers in Nigeria. In addition to the innovative products and services which the network offers them, the Red Hot promo presents them with opportunities to enrich their lives and achieve their dreams.”

To participate and qualify, customers will need to recharge their lines or purchase any Airtel data, Blackberry, Android bundle or voice offer bundle offer. Each of these activities carry specific number of entries into the raffle draw and the higher the number of entries earned, the higher the chances of winning.

The accumulated entry points for a customer can be carried over every day throughout the promo so that the chance of winning increases with every passing day. The Airtel Red Hot Promo, which runs for 60 days is open to all prepaid and Zero Credit limit post-paid customers.

It would be recalled that last year, Danjuma Ibrahim Yakubu, 40, a National Assembly correspondent with Radio Nigeria Precious FM, in Lafia, Nassarawa State, emerged winner of the N10m star prize.