Etisalat launches UniTalk promotion for UAE’s university students

Keep friends close and savings closer” with Etisalat’s new UniTalk promotion for UAE’s university students
The UAE’s youth now have more reasons to connect, share and grow their social network through their mobile phones. Offering a chance to enjoy exclusive discounts and benefits, Etisalat has announced an exciting new promotion on its UniTalk student plan. The UniTalk plan, specially designed for university and college goers in the UAE, is pocket-friendly and an ideal choice for technology savvy and socially active mobile users.
Under the new UniTalk promotion, students subscribing and referring a friend who subscribes to Etisalat’s UniTalk plan until 25 May, enjoy the chance to win attractive prizes. The promotion features an exciting line-up of raffle prizes that will be drawn at the end of the promotion. It gives students the flexibility to choose their favorite first prize worth AED 130,000 – between a car, holiday or cash worth – by voting on Etisalat’s Facebook page www.facebook.com/UnitalkUAE. Second and third prizes include an Apple kit (Macbook, iPad and iPhone) and an AED5000 shopping voucher, respectively. The raffle draw will be held on the reveal day at The Dubai Mall after the promotion ends.
Commenting on the promotion, Matthew Willsher, Chief Marketing Officer at Etisalat highlighted, “In today’s information age, students demand access to educational resources, entertainment and information on-the-go. The budget-friendly UniTalk student plan offers huge savings on calls, text messages and Internet surfing. To add to the appeal, through campus visits, the exciting new promotion offers the chance to win big prizes too.”
To engage its customers in the exciting promotion, Etisalat will run the UniTalk promotional Facebook campaign and conduct roadshows in over 16 campuses across the UAE. During the campus visits, students can subscribe to receive a raffle coupon and refer friends on-the-spot to receive additional coupons for a bigger chance to win prizes.
The schedule of campus visits are listed on Etisalat’s UniTalk Facebook page under ‘Events’. To subscribe and be eligible to enter the draw, students will need to present a valid university or college Student ID card issued from the UAE. After the promotion ends, subscribed students can renew their subscription every year with no additional charges until they are no longer at university.
UniTalk is a Wasel-powered plan that has been exclusively designed for new and existing Wasel prepaid customers studying in colleges and universities across the UAE. The plan offers student customers AED25 FREE credit upon subscription and AED 10 for the first five times they recharge their mobile account. In addition, new subscribers receive 100MB of FREE data, FREE rental on Etisalat Messenger and on Greetune services for one month.
New and existing students who are Wasel customers can migrate to the plan free of charge, and all of their national calls will be charged per-second. UniTalk customers get a special rate of as low as 0.4 fils per second for calling other UniTalk subscribers, and 0.6 fils per second for national calls outside the UniTalk group. For text messages, students are charged 15 fils per SMS for those within the UniTalk group and 18 fils per national SMS outside the UniTalk group. All other charges, such as International Calling, MMS and Roaming will be charged as per the existing rates
In addition to this, Etisalat offers an exclusive student discount of 25{e1f18614b95d3cd6e4b3128e1cd15d99b042a60a5a19c19b7a8e07e7495efa10} on all mobile Internet and mobile broadband packages. Students will also have access to Blackboard Mobile LearnTM on Etisalat, a mobile application providing students with access to all aspects of the educational experience on their mobile phone. This includes instant access to courses, content, grades, announcements, organizations and much more. The Blackboard Mobile LearnTM service is subject to the institution’s subscription to the service with Etisalat