CyTA slashes cost of so-easy package

By a Staff Reporter

THE COST of CyTA’s so-easy phone cards will drop by 47 per cent from tomorrow.

The so-easy package, a one-off pay-as-you-go method of mobile phone charging currently costs £29, which includes a new phone number and £5 call credit. From tomorrow, the package will cost only £15.

Once the package is installed in a mobile phone, the user than merely buys a new charge card when his credit has run out. These are available from kiosks in denominations of £3, £5, £10 and £20.

So-easy calls cost slightly more than subscriber mobile calls but users do not face a monthly CyTA subscription once the initial package is paid for. By using the card foreigners can also avoid having to pay the huge deposits that CyTA requires for them to subscribe to a permanent line.

According to CyTA, 160,000 people on the island use the so-easy package for their mobile needs. This represents 36.6 per cent of all mobile users in Cyprus, totalling 437,000.

CyTA has since last year begun to drop both fixed-line and mobile charges as a move towards facing the competition resulting from the liberalisation of the telecommunications sector.

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