MTN Nigeria unveils 0913 new network number prefix

 

MTN Nigeria has added a new network prefix to its pre-existing 13, bringing the total tally to 14.

On the 30th of October, 2020 MTN Nigeria added the network prefix, 0913, to its network.

Recalled, MTN Nigeria added on the 11th of March, 2020, three network prefixes, 0704, 07025, 07026 to its Network. The prefixes, formerly visafone numbers were launched three years after the acquisition of visafone by MTN Nigeria.

New numbers are unveiled as number ranges get exhausted. For instance, when “0803” and “0806” numbers got exhausted around 2009, MTN Nigeria unveiled the 0813 Numbering range.

Accordingly, with the emergence of the new network prefixes, potential subscribers can purchase their new MTN lines, and opt for which of the three prefixes they prefer.

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) had allocated 12 number blocks to MTN; each range consisting of 10 million.

The additional Visafone number block with 2 million Mobile Station International Subscriber Directory Numbers (MSISDNs); that is 122 million in all.

MTN Nigeria’s Mobile Phone Network Prefixes:

0913

The new “prefix” MTN Nigeria introduced in October 2020 as tweeted by the telco.

07025

The “07025” prefix was formerly associated with the now defunct Visafone. MTN Nigeria acquired Visafone in late December 2015.

07026

The prefix was for the defunct Visafone, which was acquired by MTN Nigeria.

0703

One of MTN Nigeria’s pioneering Network prefixes. It was launched in 2007, after they acquired the Unified Access license.

0704

A Network prefix formerly used by defunct Visafone, which MTN Nigeria acquired.

0706

One of the first network prefixes used by MTN. It was rolled in after “0803” and “0806”.

0803

MTN Nigeria started commercial operations via the 0803 prefix in 2001. It was the first to be used by the Network.

0806

The second network prefix used by MTN Nigeria after “0803”. It was launched in 2005.

0810

MTN Nigeria launched the “0810” prefix in 2011.

0813

The prefix was unveiled in 2009, after MTN Nigeria exhausted the “0803” and “0806” prefix.

0814

“0814” was introduced in December 2012.

0816

The prefix was launched in December 2009. That same year, MTN Nigeria was quoted to have secured approval from NCC for submarine cable landing station.

0903

MTN introduced this number prefix in 2013.

0906

The “0906” prefix was announced in 2017, 4 years after “0903” was unveiled.