In a bid to ease communicationchallenges of international travelers into the country, Starcomms Plc,Nigeria’s leading Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) operator in thetelecommunication industry, has launched a phone rental service at theinternational airport in Lagos
The service which coversboth voice and data comes with customer-pocket friendly tariff. To benefit fromthis service, customer will have to pay a sum of N500 for a phone for voiceonly and N1, 000 for both voice and data.
It is serviceon-the-go and the registration process is simple and it takes only few minutesto complete.
Mr. Logan Pather, the Chief Executive Officer of the companydisclosed this in Lagos, saying this is another service innovation to make travelersstay in touch with friends, family and their business partners around the worldas seamlessly as possible.
He said, “Thisservice is also available for high end phones like the Motor Q’s with capacityto handle both voice and data services. However, for customer to enjoy voice ordata service on any of these phones, customer will buy a minimum of N1000airtime for voice and 1G of internet data service at the ongoing rate.’’
On arrival, newsubscribers who want to lease a phone, rather than buy, for the duration oftheir stay in the country can get it from the Starcomms kiosk available at the arrivalhall of the international airport in Lagos.
All that the customerneeds to do is to complete a registration form with their personal details suchas names, address, duration of stay, purpose of visit and other relevantinformation that may be required.
However, on departure,customer will be required to signs a return form and turn in the phone at thesame point.
Pather pointed outthat Starcomms as a listening network will also provide customer care servicesto proffer solutions on number to call and other information challenges thatmay arise at the point of service.
This service will notbe limited to customers in Lagos alone as Starcomms has plans in place toreplicate it in other international airports across the nation.
Pather further re-iteratedthat Starcomms would continue to come up with top rated innovations that offervalue for money in order to bring an equal satisfaction to all categories ofcustomers on its network.