Du launches prepaid fixed telephony across UAE

The UAE’s Du yesterday launched its homephone recharge service, allowing subscribers to prepay credit on any home landline in the country, regardless of provider, as well as take advantage of calls from as low as one fils per second (US$0.027 per minute). Recharge cards are available in denominations of between AED 20 and AED 500.

Faraidooni says the the new recharge service offers the flexibility and value of one rate for 190 countries and pay-by-the-second billing

The operator also offers a competitive ‘One World One Rate’ tariff for international calls made to 190 destinations from home fixed lines. Initial rates cost one fils per second during the night daily, including  Friday from 9pm to 9am, three fils per second during the day from 9am to 9pm and 1.5 fils per second on Friday from 9am to 9pm.

“Best of all, customers can take advantage of our homephone recharge services with no change to their home telephone number, no monthly fees and no service interruption, while receiving the option to choose between prepaid or postpaid homephone service,” said Farid Faraidooni, chief commercial officer at Du.