Orange introduces airtime advance service

The service, the first for any cellphone network provider in Botswana, has been dubbed Mpharanyetse Airtime and will be available from today.According to Orange Offers and Devices Manager, Lebogang Moruti, the service advances qualifying prepaid customers with up to P10 airtime that is then deducted from their accounts when next they recharge.

But it comes with a surcharge. As Moruti told journalists at the launch yesterday, customers will be charged P2 every time they use the service. Even so, the service will come in handy when customers need emergency airtime, especially when they are in a place where it is hard to get airtime. Orange Botswana CEO, Elizabeth Medou-Badang, said to qualify for the product, a customer would have to have been a registered and active Orange prepaid subscriber for at least three months.