Rise in demand for MCI 0919 sim cards with catchy numbers
They price from 400,000 rials up to 1,000,000 rials, when MCI postpaid sim card market remains stagnant.
New Mobile Company of Iran sim cards with codes 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 are sold at 6.50, 5.58, 4.10, 3.90, 3.70, 3.50 and 3.10 million rials respectively, while second-hand MCI sim cards with codes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 are sold at 6.00, 3.90, 3.30, 2.70, 2.50, 2.40, 2.30 and 2.20 million rials respectively.
MCI code 0910 sim card is sold at official price of 1,230,600 rials.
MCI prepaid sim card’s official price is 226,000 rials, although it is sold at 300,000 rials on the black market.
Taliya and IranCell sim cards are on offer at 90,000 and 50,000 rials respectively.
In all, the country’s five mobile operators have up to now sold around 50 million pre- and postpaid sim cards.
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