Airtel Smart number, own two phone numbers in one Airtel sim

Airtel, One of the popular network providers in Nigeria and Africa at large have introduced yet another interesting feature for their esteem subscribers or customers, it’s tagged SMART NUMBER this feature will make it possible for anyone on the Airtel network to have and manage two numbers on one single sim card, an interesting aspect of this is that you don’t need to buy any special sim card before you can enjoy this feature, all you need do is follow the instructions am to disclose shortly.

According to the description on Airtel smart number campaign page this smart sim feature is enabled you to:

• Define when you want your smart number to be reachable
• Set up a permanent signature anytime you want to send SMS from your smart number
• Blacklist certain numbers from reaching you
• Select numbers you want to reach you even if you are logged off
• Hold a conference call with up to 20 participants by using smart number IVR or smart web portal.

As you can see the smart number feature looks like a good initiative by the Airtel, it’s tailored for businessmen and commercialists since not everyone will like to combine his private life with that of business, thus setting aside private and business numbers with predefined callers.

How does the smart number work?

For one to enjoy this feature you will need to

1. Own an Airtel sim card of course
2. Visit the smart sim portal http://airtelsmartnumber.com/sm/g/
3. Or dial 618 from your Airtel number
4. Get allocated with a smart number plus a free seven days trial period in which you will be charged 15ngn daily or 250ngn monthly

This is how it works

• Billing on those outgoing calls will be on your main number
• When someone calls your smart number it will ring on your primary number
• SMS charges are at the same rate of normal SMS charges
• SMS sent to your smart number will come directly to your main/primary number
• To make a call or send SMS from your smart number put 66 before the number you want to call

You can test this feature with the free seven days trial, let’s see how it goes, this feature will surely boost the fame of Airtel since they are the first to introduce such among all the mobile network provider in Africa.

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