Cheaper data plans emerging

With news that new ISP players are planning to launch, and Airtel starting sooner or later, our two wireless network are starting to show some interesting deals for customers.

Even though these deals are still tagged as promotional rates, we are seeing 'le bout du tunnel'. Tigo is now famously known for putting exceptional promotions first but this time MTN got the edge on them with data plans for a whole day, week or month for 1,000; 6,500 and 21,000rwf respectively. Tigo replied with an Internet-day at 800rwf. Cheaper? Not really as Tigo's plan isn't unlimited (2GB limit).

MTN can afford offering unlimited plans with its 13 years old network (3 to 4 years for the 3G network) compared to the young Tigo network (only 2 years old).