It seems Airtel Kenya has been busy tweaking its Premier postpaid plans within the background, making an enormous transfer to sweeten the deal for its high-value subscribers.
When Airtel first unveiled Premier again in 2023, the product was positioned as a premium postpaid providing concentrating on people, startups, SMEs, and corporates. The plans have been cut up into three classes particularly Bonga Zaidi, Browse Ukibonga, and Browse Zaidi, catering to heavy callers, balanced customers, and data-heavy customers respectively. Airtel highlighted perks resembling free Airtel-to-Airtel calls after utilizing up allotted minutes and the rollover of unused sources upon renewal.
Whereas we final checked in on Airtel Premier with our evaluate again in August 2024, it appears the telco has since quietly rolled out important modifications to its ‘Chaguo Langu’ plans. We don’t know when precisely these modifications took impact, however some customers had the now-defunct KES 999 plan as latest as August 2025 (see screenshot beneath). The excellent news? You’re getting considerably extra information and minutes than what was on provide at launch in April 2023.
Right here’s a breakdown of what Airtel has modified with the Premier postpaid plans.
Huge worth enhance throughout the board
The headline change is the sheer worth enhance throughout the first present worth tiers (KES 1,499, KES 1,999, and KES 2,999). Airtel is now providing dramatically increased allowances for each minutes and information, typically doubling the speak time and including substantial gigabytes to the bundles.
At launch, the entry-level plan began at KES 999, providing 5GB of information and 600 minutes beneath Bonga Zaidi. The costliest plan went as much as KES 4,999, providing as much as 125GB of information and three,000 minutes. Nevertheless, Airtel’s newest lineup paints a special image. The corporate now lists 4 tiers ranging from KES 499 and scaling as much as KES 2,999, nonetheless beneath the identical three plan classes.
Right here’s a have a look at the info and minute modifications throughout the accessible plans:
Notably, Airtel has dropped the KES 999 and KES 4,999 choices, and whereas the entry-level plan is now cheaper, the higher-end packages have barely totally different information and minute allocations. The telco has additionally clarified that the allotted minutes are actually cut up equally between on-net and all-net calls, one thing that wasn’t explicitly said earlier than.
Additionally unchanged and nonetheless some extent of friction for a lot of customers is the requirement to go to an Airtel store to subscribe or terminate an Airtel Premier plan. This limitation was beforehand highlighted in our evaluate, the place the in-store requirement was one of many extra inconvenient components of the in any other case interesting service.
Airtel has not shared any official assertion or press launch relating to these revisions, nor after they took impact. However the quiet changes recommend the corporate could also be refining its postpaid technique to higher attraction to a broader vary of customers, presumably in response to market suggestions or evolving information consumption patterns.
For now, clients can nonetheless join by filling within the kind right here or visiting any Airtel heart nationwide and may discover plan particulars on Airtel Kenya’s official web site.
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