MTN Awuf4U Tariff Plan in Nigeria and What Replaced It
MTN no longer offers Awuf4U. Its code, *888*PIN#, now earns GistPlus: 300% on recharges of ₦100 to ₦5,000, spent at ₦45 a minute.
There is no Awuf4U plan left to migrate to. It has gone from MTN’s tariff list and has no page on mtn.ng, and MTN’s help centre now says anyone who still has an Awuf4U account is charged the GistPlus rate. GistPlus is MTN’s nearest current offer, and you reach it with the code you came for.
How to get GistPlus
Recharge with *888*PIN# in place of your usual code. To pay from airtime already on the line, dial *312*7# and choose option 1. There is nothing to migrate to, because GistPlus is a recharge bonus and your tariff plan stays as it is. MTN says the line must have been active for at least 30 days.
The bonus is 250% below ₦100 and 300% from ₦100 to ₦5,000. Above ₦5,000 there is none. So ₦100 becomes ₦400 and ₦1,000 becomes ₦4,000, all of it in a separate GistPlus account. Calls to any Nigerian network from that account are 75 kobo a second, or ₦45 a minute. A text is ₦6 and data is ₦10 per MB. Dial *310*14# for the balance.
It lasts 1 day below ₦100, 3 days from ₦100 to ₦399, and 14 days from ₦1,000 to ₦5,000. For ₦400 to ₦999, MTN’s product page says 3 days and its help centre says 7, so plan on 3.
What it buys against Awuf4U and today’s alternatives
It is a smaller deal than Awuf4U was. The last copy of MTN’s Awuf4U page in the Internet Archive, from July 2021, gave a 400% bonus and calls at ₦33.60 a minute, so ₦1,000 bought nearly 149 minutes. On GistPlus the same ₦1,000 buys 88 minutes 53 seconds, which is ₦11.25 a minute.
That beats BetaGist’s plain rate, where ₦1,000 is 50 minutes 30 seconds. It loses to MTN’s sachet bundles when you will use the minutes quickly: ₦500 buys 55 minutes for 5 days with *887#, and ₦100 buys 10 minutes for a day, where GistPlus gives 8 minutes 53 seconds for 3 days. GistPlus makes sense for someone who wants two weeks to use up a recharge.
The catch is that the whole recharge lands in the GistPlus account, not only the bonus. You cannot buy a data bundle or any other service from it, or make an international call with it. For those, keep money in the main balance by recharging with *311*PIN#, which earns no bonus.
Moving to a call plan
When the GistPlus account runs out, calls are charged from the main balance at your plan’s rate, and changing plan does not touch what is left in GistPlus. An old line may still be on a plan MTN has retired. BetaGist, MTN’s default, is a flat 33 kobo a second: dial *123*2*1# or text BG to 312. The first move in 30 days is free and later ones that month cost ₦150. It is compared with the rest under the best MTN tariff plan for calls.
