Overseas mobile phone card | MTN: 3-year number guarantee fee of 5 yuan Nigeria eSIM mobile phone number purchase and use experience

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Query code: *663#
Three-year warranty code: *365*3#

First, let’s take a look at the low prices in Nigeria:

Although the code receiving platform can solve many problems, for some specific apps (such as e-wallets), a long-term mobile phone number is required to receive SMS verification codes from time to time. At this time, we need to buy an overseas mobile phone number. MTN is a telecommunications operator in Nigeria that can provide eSIM services. The three-year number guarantee fee is 1,228 naira, equivalent to RMB 5.33. At the same time, Nigeria is a low-cost area for a large number of international Internet services, which perfectly meets the purchasing needs.

Nigerian mobile phone numbers are mainly used to register local e-wallets: Chipper and Paga. After successful registration, you can pay to open a local US dollar/Naira virtual bank card, so as to conveniently purchase and subscribe to app services.

Most online tutorials on purchasing and using MTN cover basic operations, but rarely mention the difficulties and risks involved in actual operations. I will talk about the key points, hoping to lower expectations of the convenience of purchasing and using MTN. Because the eSIM number purchased using someone else's real-name information is not something that can be done in one go.

1. Apply for Nigeria BVN

URL:https://oisservices.com/

It is recommended to save the website that the 90% tutorials on the Internet will not mention.

BVN is a centralized biometric identification system launched by the Central Bank of Nigeria. If you want to register an e-wallet in Nigeria, you need to undergo facial recognition. In most tutorials, you either directly purchase a finished account that has been authenticated by a real person from Heige, or you recommend an agency.

The risk of doing this is that if your e-wallet has large transactions, once it is retrieved by Hei Ge, you will suffer heavy losses.

In fact, we can also apply for Nigeria BVN normally in China, and offline locations include Beijing, Guangzhou and Shenzhen.

See the figure below:

The outrageous thing about this location is that it is in the same building as my former company.

It is said that the normal application fee for BVN is 300 RMB, and you also need to enter your face and fingerprints of ten fingers. This operation also seems risky. After all, personal biometric information is too important. So, how to weigh it is up to you.

2. How to buy MTN

If you want to buy MTN esim cards, you can either use Google to search for self-built card issuing websites, or go to the Telegram group. There are even black brothers who build their own websites, without middlemen to make a profit. I have searched these channels and found them relatively easy. The keywords are nothing more than Nigeria, mtn, chipper, paga, etc. Therefore, I will not recommend any channel because there are too many uncertainties in this type of product.

Here is a normal MTN purchasing price range: 7 to 10U; the prices on domestic card issuing websites range from dozens to two hundred yuan.

U is the legal currency USDT, which is 1:1 with the US dollar. If you trade directly with Heige, please have basic knowledge of digital currency trading.

When you decide to purchase an MTN eSIM card through Heige's certification materials,Please be aware that Heige can retrieve his phone number at any time.. I saw some domestic users sharing their experiences of being “cheated” in the Telegram group. From this perspective, it may be a better way to let some domestic webmasters make a little profit from the price difference. After all, Chinese people don’t cheat Chinese people.

3. Communication and number preservation operations

If you have found a reliable purchasing channel and plan to buy an MTN eSIM card, then my purchasing experience can be used as a reference.

No matter which channel you use to sell the card, you should confirm the following things with the seller:

• Can be downloaded and used normally
• It does not start with 707
• You can apply for a number preservation package via USSD code or SMS
• Agree with the seller on the minimum normal usage time of a number (such as 1 month/2 months, etc.)

This is a necessary condition to ensure that the mobile phone number can be used normally. Below I will list the key points to do according to the operation process.

1. Don’t place an order directly, add the blogger/customer service WeChat first

In actual operation, there will be a lot of real-time communication. It is recommended to add WeChat/Telegram first and then place an order.

2. Scanning the QR code to download the eSIM failed, mostly due to the SIM card

Due to the situation that Heige bought multiple cards, if you scan the eSIM QR code, you cannot download successfully. 90% is all because of Heige. Unless you see the relevant prompt of "network problem", consider changing your phone.

I changed the code 7 times before I was able to download it successfully.

3. Check APN and solve signal problems

After the eSIM is downloaded successfully, the SIM card may have no signal. This situation often occurs in Android phones because the APN will not connect automatically.

At this time, open "Settings - Mobile Network - Mobile Data - APN (Access Point Name)" and connect to MTN WEB.

4. USSD code for phone number query

After writing the eSIM, you will usually have a signal after waiting for one or two minutes. At this time, enter *663# on the phone dialing interface to view the phone number.

5. Reject 707 numbers

The number for Nigeria is +234707*******, where 234 is the country code. If the last three digits are 707, you must communicate with the seller to change the number because 707 cannot be registered for chipper.

6. Log in to myMTN NG app and top up

Before purchasing a mobile number, it is best to download the myMTN NG app in advance. After logging into the app with your mobile number, you must first top up 1,300 naira (airtime).

If you have no intention of registering chipper or paga, you can only ask the seller to recharge for you.

Recharge price reference: 10 yuan = 2000 naira

Friends who are not familiar with Nigerian e-wallets need to be reminded that without BVN, chipper and paga cannot be registered independently. Like MTN, you also need to find a black brother or a purchasing agent to buy it, and then change your email, mobile phone number, password, and delete other device login methods.

7. Apply for a number preservation

After recharging the account, you can apply for a number preservation package. The details are as follows:

The text message needs to be sent to 36500. However, I have only sent it from the number in question and it did not work. I am not sure if I need to activate a roaming package.

8. Failure to keep the number

What you need to know is that not all mobile phone numbers can be successfully reserved. If this prompt appears, you will most likely need to find the seller to change your mobile phone number:

If you want to struggle, you can cancel the "network operator" in the mobile data settings and change it to "China Mobile". Someone in the forum succeeded in doing this, but I didn't.

9. Create a PIN code to transfer mobile phone balance

The balance of your MTN mobile phone can be transferred to another mobile phone number. You can transfer it to the seller first, and then transfer it back to the new mobile phone number.

To transfer, just click "share" and follow the prompts.

During the operation, you may encounter the problem of failure to create a PIN code. This may be a bug in the APP. Therefore, you can also use the USSD code operation on your mobile phone. See the figure below:

Input: *321*1*4# and follow the prompts. If you have not bound your email address, it will prompt you to bind your email address first.

During the operation, if there is no prompt for successful creation, but something like this appears:

Then do it a few more times.

After the PIN is created successfully, it is recommended to wait 20 to 30 minutes before transferring money. I found that this seems to be a common problem of the Niqu app. The configuration changes will not take effect immediately and you need to wait. I don’t know why.

You probably won't see the operation of creating a PIN code through USSD code in other tutorials. Only my seller published it before me based on my operation. Considering my experience, you might as well click on the advertisement in the article~

After successfully reserving your number, you can also check it in the myMTN NG app:

The above is the whole process of MTN eSIM from purchase to number preservation. Among them, I omitted the relevant operations of Paga wallet registration and card activation. I will talk about it in the next issue.

Finally, let me share my personal opinion: Don’t have too many expectations for the prices in the low-price area. Turkey is a good example. The prices have been rising continuously in the past two years, and they have begun to catch up with the domestic area. There are fewer and fewer fish that slip through the net. When looking at various price comparisons, I found that the starting point in the Nigeria area is actually a low-price area, which I didn’t expect. What I didn’t expect was that the paid subscription of Qidian also has a big price difference. I can read any novel I want in the future!

But no matter what, use it with caution and consume rationally.

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