9mobile Talkzone Tariff Plan in Nigeria After the T2 Rename

*244*8# was the code for Talkzone, the plan that priced calls by where you stood and what hour it was. T2mobile, as 9mobile now trades, shows neither the plan nor the code on its website, so do not count on it. The old 9mobile web address forwards to t2mobile.com.ng, and the company behind it is the same, Emerging Markets Telecommunication Services.

T2 lists four prepaid plans, and none changes its price with your location. For plain cheap calls, dial *620*1# to move to Morelife Complete, or dial *301# and follow the menu.

Morelife Complete, the low rate with a daily fee

Morelife Complete charges 16.38 kobo a second to any Nigerian network, which is ₦9.83 a minute. The price of that rate is an access fee of ₦7.68, taken on the first call of the day and good until 11.59pm. On a day with no calls there is no fee.

Against T2 Konfam’s ordinary rate of 31.74 kobo a second, the fee has paid for itself after 50 seconds of talk in a day, so anyone who makes more than one short call a day is better off here. T2 charges a migration fee of ₦102.40 if you have no free migration left. Its site does not say how often a free one comes round.

What ₦1,000 of airtime buys on T2

Morelife Complete wins even with the access fee charged every day of the month. If you are comparing networks, we have done the same sums for Airtel’s call plans and, on our MTN Zone page, for MTN’s.

T2 Konfam, for new SIMs only

T2 Konfam is for new customers and runs for six months. T2 says that after 180 days the line is moved automatically to “the default plan”, and does not name it. The code T2 gives is *301#, then follow the prompt.

Calls from the airtime you paid for cost 31.74 kobo a second, or ₦19.04 a minute. The selling point is a “900%” bonus on every recharge of ₦100 or more, and T2’s own breakdown is plainer. You keep your recharge, you get the same amount again as bonus airtime for calls, and you get seven times the amount as bonus airtime for data. The bonus is billed at 83 kobo a second for calls, which is ₦49.80 a minute, and ₦70 per MB for data. It is spent before your own airtime and it expires after seven days, so it is worth having only if you use it inside the week.

So a ₦1,000 recharge is ₦1,000 at the normal rate, plus about 20 minutes of bonus calls and 100MB. The percentage is bigger than what it buys, and for someone who mostly calls, Morelife Complete gives more minutes for the same money. What Konfam adds is a little data.

Two more bonuses come with the plan. A new SIM gets ₦1,000 once on activation: ₦300 for calls, which is about six minutes, and ₦700 for data, which is 10MB. From the second month to the sixth, the first recharge of ₦200 or more in a month doubles the data bonus, so ₦1,000 brings 200MB that time.

Moreflex Plus bundles and the SME Plan

A Moreflex Plus bundle is one payment for minutes and data.

Every bundle is bought with *301*9#. Buying one moves your line to Moreflex Plus at no charge, and that matters, because calls outside a bundle then cost 61.44 kobo a second. Watch the balance: once the minutes are gone that is ₦36.86 a minute, the dearest rate of the lot and almost four times the Morelife Complete rate, until you buy another bundle or change plan. Unused minutes and data are not carried over when a bundle expires.

The bundles are a convenience more than a saving. Take Moreflex Plus 2000. T2’s ordinary 2GB monthly data plan costs ₦1,000, and 65 minutes on Morelife Complete cost ₦638.82. That is ₦1,638.82 for the same minutes and more data. Add the access fee for all 30 days and it is still only ₦1,869.22.

The fourth plan, the SME Plan, sells minutes, data and SMS together for small businesses. Bundles run from ₦500 to ₦4,000, and T2’s site shows the code for each.

A text costs ₦6 on Morelife Complete, T2 Konfam and Moreflex Plus. Browsing with no data plan is charged at 5 kobo per kilobyte, which comes to ₦51.20 per MB, so buy a data plan before you go online.

What Talkzone promised

9mobile’s own page for the plan, which the Internet Archive still holds, described a prepaid plan with “dynamically adjusted” rates. Calls to other 9mobile numbers were discounted by up to 80%, and the charge fell depending on where you were and the time of day, to as low as 12 kobo a second between 12.30am and 4.30am. A flash message showed the discount when you started a call, and dialling *551# showed the tariff for an area. A text was ₦4. Nothing on T2’s list replaces those cheap calls after midnight.

That page never promised 1 kobo a second or free midnight calls, though both claims went round at the time.

The Archive’s last working copy is from September 2021, and by December 2023 the address returned an error. In 2021 9mobile’s prepaid menu had eight plans. T2’s has four, and Morelife Complete is the only name on both. In July 2024 the Nigerian Communications Commission told operators to simplify their tariff plans by the end of that year.

T2’s website does not say what became of lines that were on Talkzone. On a line that joined years ago and never moved, dial *301# for the self-service menu or call customer care on 300, and ask what rate it is being charged.

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