30-Day Validity Packs: Small Change, Big Benefits

Nepal Telecom has increased the validity of one of its monthly packs from 28 days to 30 days. The decision is new and could become meaningful for the enhanced user experience for mobile pack subscribers in Nepal. This article navigates through the best benefits of having a 30-day mobile pack instead of the flawed 28-day monthly pack.

NTC’s hike of 30 days validity came as part of new measures to improve customer service and satisfaction after the communication ministry’s 10-key initiatives. As a result, the telco started PAYG, letting users control data service while it’s also working on issuing alerts for data usage to notify users of their usage volume. We believe Ncell is going to start doing something like this soon. Learn more: How to use PAYG in Ntc?

But increasing validity has its own importance. Prior to this, NTC had been providing a maximum of 28 days of validity in its monthly plan. Even the naming sounded short in terms of the days it served. The 30-day configuration makes it proper and justifiable. There’s also talk of subscription-based plans coming into implementation. So, the telco industry is headed for many changes in the coming months.

Now, let’s cut to the chase.

Benefits of 30 days monthly pack

Here are the key advantages for the users of a 30-day monthly mobile pack:

• Better value for money: A 30-day pack means a user needs to buy exactly 12 packs a year, technically. But with a 28-day service, it would be 13. Therefore, users get more, or let’s say, the exact monthly validity they should get for a monthly plan purchase. It translates to a better customer experience. It’s a hidden cost saved for them.
• Transparency: A 28-day pack was seen as a trick played by telcos on users, to make them recharge more in the year by not really offering a true monthly subscription. The 30-day system ends for good. There’s no hidden pricing trick anymore. When you buy a monthly pack, you get 30 days of validity. It’s honest and transparent.
• Less recharge: When you have 30 days for a pack, you get an extra two days. That means you may not have to recharge the pack early. You get a full month of service to benefit from. It’s more beneficial for the elderly and those who live in rural areas.
• Better budgeting: The increased validity with 30 days allows users to better budget their expenses on mobile packs. They can sync it with their monthly salary, savings, and expenditure plans.
• Psychological relief: Having a 30-day pack gives a strange kind of psychological relief. That’s because you are not limited to the 28-day service, which falls short of 2 days for a month. Also, if you buy a pack on the 1st day of a month, you don’t need to buy another pack in the same month. That’s another good aspect of this 3-day validity.
• Better competition: So far, both Ntc and Ncell have been providing packs for up to 28 days. But with Ntc finally starting a 30-day pack, at least for one at the moment, it has set a trend. It’s going to stir a competition which will turn out to be better for the users and the industry too.
• Better user habits, better finances: A 30-day pack could become popular among users thanks to a full month of service. That can trigger more users to buy into it. When that happens, telcos can also see their revenues grow with higher subscription patterns. It’s good for all: telecom operators and the users.

Current status

So far, only Ntc provides 30 days of validity in select packs at the moment. Ncell is yet to make a step on this. In our neighboring country, India, too, the government has urged the telcos to promote 30-day packs for users. So, the stage is already set for telcos in Nepal to bring in 30-day monthly packs for users. We might see its broader implementation in the coming months across more packs.

The question is, will you buy monthly packs more consistently if the telcos provide you with 30-day validity? We’d love to hear your input on this in our comment section down below.

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