Well, MTN Gaga was the first offer to grace the in-week data offers before the now non-exited Africell opted for a Don’t be cheated tagline, later on, the battle attracted Airtel with a disruptive Freaky Friday offer that lasts 3-days instead of the regular 1-day offer by the two telcos.

Now, the Airtel Freaky Friday popularity trail has attracted an MTN response to change its initial Wednesday-themed offer, to an all weekend data + voice minutes combo, in simple terms a copy and paste of the Airtel Freaky Friday offer, but with a Thursday start frame.

Well, today we dig deep into the now MTN Gaga Weekend Vs Airtel Freaky Friday offers. Below are the factors that influence our overall ranking.

1. Price
2. Combo (Data + Voice Minutes) volume.
3. Expiry Timeframe
4. Connection speeds

Validity

Airtel’s Freaky Friday is an offer available every Friday with a runtime period of 3days through Saturday to Sunday midnight making it valid for 3 days. It does not matter what time of Friday you activate the bundle, the 3days counter is designed to expire at exactly 00:00 on Sunday. To spice things up, a 24hours offer is also available to customers.

On the other hand, MTN Gaga weekend is an offer available on Thursday, active through Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and expires on Monday at 6 am. Just like Airtel Freaky Friday, the time you activate MTN Gaga does not matter, as long as you load it, your offers runs out on Monday morning.

How To Activate MTN Gaga & Airtel Freaky Friday

To activate Airtel’s Freaky Friday, dial the *149*10# shortcode, from the list of options, and select your desired offer which can either be a 3-day or 24hours combo. Then, select between airtime or Airtel money to pay for your bundle.

To activate the MTN Gaga weekend offer, first, you must own a smartphone, second, you must have the MYMTN App installed on the device. The App is available through the Google Play and Apple stores for Android, iPhone users respectively.

Within the App, select Buy from the tabbed list of options, choose data from the drop-down list, then, locate MTN Gaga to choose from the available offers, and pay using MTN Mobile Money.

MTN Gaga Weekend Vs Airtel Freak Friday Bundles: The data + voice combos

Randomly, we have activated MTN Gaga Weekend and Airtel Freaky Friday offers on two separate occasions in a timeframe of 1 month. In our view, the two offers seem identical, but Airtel seemed to average with more to its offer combo than the Yello telco as listed in the comparison tables below.

Airtel Freaky Friday

MTN Gaga Weekend

Overall Score: The best offer you should be using

As listed from the comparison table, MTN Gaga Weekend Vs Airtel Freaky Friday is an offer comparison that averages with similar combos. However, Airtel stands out with more data, as MTN levels up the expiry timeframe by 4 days, that’s more time to use up your data before it’s too late.

By activation, Airtel offers a much easier way to load the offer using a dedicated USSD shortcode, as MTN continues to stick its mobile apps the default path to load the Gaga Weekend offer. This means, if you don’t own a Smartphone, but own a simple Mobile WiFi (MiFi) device, you can’t load MTN’s offer.

On the other hand, the Airtel Freaky Friday 24 hours section is a great offer, but very uncalled for in such a weekend offer spree, to spice things up, Airtel should have opted for lower prices on the 1-day pack, but at such a price tag, the offer becomes a forest of combos, but with low relevance since a not very educated user could easily get confused on what to choose.

On a balanced scale, a customer can load both offers multiple times making both MTN Gaga Weekend and Airtel Freaky Friday quite excellent to use.

On a bad note, both offers are the worst you can opt to use, this is because connection speeds are capped, the telcos seem to care more about quantity, and less about internet connection quality.

In our speed tests, regular monthly, daily and weekly bundles host good connection speeds than what the two weekend offers maximize. We shall upload both MTN Gaga Weekend and Airtel Freaky Friday sample speed tests in our upcoming articles.

In summary, amidst a few advantages to the Gaga offer, Airtel Freaky Friday is the best offer you should use, this is because you get more data at a much lower price as compared to the Yello offer.

Editor’s Note: Results from this article are based on actual findings and experiences with both offers. Please Share with us your views about the 2 products in the comments section below.

Once Airtel Freaky Friday shipped in as a great offer for red camp subscribers, Africell still followed the Friday path granting its subscribers don’t be cheated flavors twice a week.

It’s due to this competition craze that MTN resurrected Gaga Wednesday which had initially met its expiry timestamp, Interestingly, the offer bounced back as a 3-day offer expiring on Sartudays at 6am.

With the return of MTN’s Gaga offer, It meant all 3 top telcos in Uganda have midweek bulk data offer valid for 3-days. But between Freaky Friday, Gaga Wednesday, which is the best offer you should choose? We find out

How MTN Gaga and Airtel Freaky Friday are bundled

Airtel Freaky Friday offers both a data and voice package on subscription unlike MTN Gaga which is a full data offer with no additional voice bundle attached to it

However, the major similarity between the two offers is their expiry timeframe capped at 3-days. MTN Gaga is valid from Wednesday to Sartuday while Airtel Freaky Friday crosses from Friday to Sunday Midnight.

This means, both offers allow you to surf the Internet for 3 straight days from the time of purchase. However, for MTN Gaga, the offer expires at 6am on Sartuday meaning you get 3days and 1/4 to use the loaded data. Below is a summary of how the two telcos bundle their offers and validity period

How to load

For MTN Gaga Wednesday, you can only purchase the offer though the MTN MOMO App (MY MTN), while for Airtel Freaky Friday, all you have to do is dial *149*10#

The Best offer you should be using

Cheap data is what everyone wants, right? Both telcos offer great packages, but they are never on a plain field. Amidst the fact that the offers change per week, they are never similar, but usually different by 1GB or 2GB.

Well, we monitored the 2 offers for 3 Weeks and both telcos offered the best packages, though MTN’s Gaga Wednesday feel stands a level higher than Freaky Friday due to the fact that Airtel combines its data offer with a voice bundle to make up a week’s package.

For the past 3 weeks that we’ve monitored the MTN Gaga offer which shines on Wednesday and Airtel’s Freaky Friday offer on Friday, both offers have rarely changed beyond 1Gb and here are the past 3 offers by both telcos:

MTN Gaga and Freaky Friday offers and pricing

On a weekly timeframe, 5GB of data costs UGX 20,000 on MTN while 4GB of Airtel data costs 15,000/=, this means, both telcos charge the same amount for a 5GB data bundle valid for a week that is discounted to 6,000/= by MTN as its average offer

Since Airtel offers a data + Voice combo, it means, the average 3.5GB offer which is not available on a weekly scale but instead incremented by 500MB is discounted from 13,000/= to UGX 4,500 since 30 minutes of talk time cost 1,000/= as a Pakalast offering.

With both offers weighed on a weekly scale, MTN Gaga is a much better offer with more data for less. Contrary to the Freaky Friday offer which combines both data and voice, MTN Gaga gives you more data, and the same validity period as Airtel’s Freaky Friday.

WINNER: MTN Gaga Wednesday

If you’d like to load Airtel Freaky Friday that binds both Voice (minutes) and Data offers in a single package. Then, it’s about time you geared up your USSD Phone dial pad to load buy any of the available offers.

Load Airtel Freaky Friday Bundles (Minutes + Data)

1. Dial *149*10# and choose your preferred offer (24hrs or 3-days)
2. OR: Dial *149#
3. Then Select Option 10 (Freaky Friday)
4. Choose your preferred offer (whether a 24hours or 3day deal)
5. Then pay with Airtime or Airtel Money
6. DONE: Your Freaky Friday offer will be loaded on your account

How to Load Airtel Freaky Friday Bundles for another number

Just like the main Freaky Friday loading procedure, you can gift the data offer to friends and family with ease. Luckily, no complicated procedure is involved in the loading process, and so, here is how you can load freaky Friday for another number using your phone:

1. Dial *149*10#
2. OR Dial *149#, then select option 10 (Freaky Friday)
3. Then choose option 3 (Gift)
4. Select your preferred offer, whether a 24hours or 3days offer
5. Then enter an Airtel number you wish to load Freaky Friday for
6. Pay with Airtime or Airtel Money
7. DONE: The Freaky Friday offer will be sent to your recipient’s phone number

Even more Airtel Freaky Friday Data in 2023

Airtel has sparked off an improved feature for its Freaky Friday Offer. Every Subscriber/Customer can now activate a Freaky Friday offer for more than once on the same day.

This means you can buy as more data + minutes as you wish. For instance, with 4GB Data + 100Mins valid for 3days at 5,000/= currently on the line, it means you get 8GB + 200Mins when you purchase the bundle twice before midnight.

However, the unfortunate flip of the offer is that its lifespan sits in the same frame as your first loaded offer. So, when you buy the bundle twice or thrice, the duration doesn’t change. For instance, for a 3day offer your data + minutes seize to be present by Monday once loaded on Friday.

Hence, it’s better to make multiple purchases if you have bulk downloads you wish to take-on during the weekend or even watch and download your favorite Netflix titles.