You can now share or buy data for your friends and family using the MTN data gifting service. The latest MTN service for gifting allows you to transfer data from your current data balance to your friends and families, buy data for friends, and even request data from your friends. Similar post: How to use MTN free incoming minutes
MTN Data Gifting service allows you to transfer data from your active data balance to your friends, buy data for friends, and request data from your friends. You can use the service to send and buy data bundles for your other smartphones, routers, and tablets. Everyone on the MTN network can access the Data Gifting service.
How do I buy data for a friend? Data Gifting: Data gifting allows you to buy a data bundle plan for another customer by paying with your own airtime. For example, if your friend/family runs out of data, you can just buy another data plan for the person. To gift data, simply dial *141# and select the option for Gifting or Me2U.
How do I buy data for someone else on MTN? To buy/gift data for a friend on the MTN line you need to: Dial *131* bundle activation code*receivers phone number# and send. Very easy as you can see.
All customers on the MTN network can access the Data Gifting service. To use the MTN data gifting service and buy MTN data for a friend, Simply dial *131*Bundle Activation Code*Friend’s MTN number#, and your friend will receive the data plan.
How To Transfer or Gift data to a friend on MTN
To use the MTN data gifting service and transfer data for your friend, you can dial *131*7# with your MTN SIM on your phone, and for immediate MTN data transfer to your friend, Simply DIAL *131*Phone number* Data amount# OR TEXT Transfer<space>Phone number<space>Data amount 131.
- Transfer MTN data to a friend using code: DIAL *131*Phone number* Data amount#
- Transfer MTN data to a friend using SMS: TEXT Transfer<space>Phone number<space>Data amount 131.
How to Request MTN Data from a Friend
Request Data from a Friend: Don’t get stranded or go without Data on your phone, you can now request data from that Special friend. Simply dial *131*7*3#
View Pending Request: To check all your existing requests. Simply dial *131*7*4#
All you need to know about the MTN Data Sharing
Simply dial *131*Bundle Activation Code*Friend’s MTN number#
You can only buy and transfer data from your daily, weekly, and monthly bundle plans, but, you shall not be able to gift from an XtraValue bundle.
No! You will only be charged the price of the data plan if you are buying it for a friend.
You will be able to check your data bundle balance via the following channels:
SMS: Texting 2 to 131
USSD: dialing *131*4#
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The maximum number of times you can transfer is twice daily. However, the cumulative amount you can transfer at a given time and in a day is 100MB.
How to Add Phone Numbers to MTN Data Share Service. You can add the MTN phone numbers of your beneficiaries to the MTN Shared Data Bundle by dialing 1312*2#, or sending “ADD” to short number 131.
Dial: *461*NUMBER*1000*PIN#
SMS: SMEC <PhoneNumber> 1000 <PIN> to 131