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.

MTN’s Gaga Wednesday was by far one of the best bundles for the midweek before Africell introduced don’t be cheated as a viable option on the same day. Well, the same happens to Friday which was ignited by Airtel and still, Africell popped out against the odds to prove its internet offers as the best.

Today we have a brief comparison between these two data offers as Airtel’s offer can only be activated on Friday as the competing offer is also available on Wednesdays. While Airtel offers both voice and internet on its package. Africell’s Friday offer also has minutes in the same chronological order as the Red offer.

Don’t be cheated Vs Freaky Friday in-depth overview

Before Africell opted to introduce a Friday version of its don’t be cheated offer. Airtel was offering a unique day offer where it borrowed a leaf from the Gaga Vs don’t be cheated channel with 4GB or 3GB data up for grabs changing per week.

Either way, we have a sample of Today’s offer (15th Feb 2019) and it’s our base to choose between which telco has the best and most affordable bundle. Additionally, both have minimum and maximum packages that give an even better in-depth view of the best offer in to choose.

OFFER	Minimum Data Offer	Maximum Data Offer	Minimum Minutes (Voice)	Max Minutes (Voice)	Validity
Freaky Friday	1.5 GB	4 GB	50 Min	100 Min	3 Days
Don't be cheated	1.5 GB	4.5 GB	30 Min	120 Min	3 Days

Before Africell crossed over to the Friday wing, it gave MTN a headless run before its current troubles to a point that Gaga Wednesday could only be activated through the easy to use MY MTN app. The same scenario crosses over to Airtel which follows its original offer caps as Africell stretches for more data at a favorable cost juiced up with on-net minutes.

With over 500MBs in extra for the don’t be cheated bundle, the orange flag lifts up the juicy king of the bundles’ flag since Airtel has close to the same offer but losing by a simple MBs increment. Hence, the additional quota data offered by Africell makes it more affordable and great to rely on.

The Price Differences

Airtel’s Freaky Friday usually costs 3000/= and 5000/= on a freaky inflated day, though the red telco usually limits its offer to 3,000/= with no 5K alternative. On the other hand, Africell’s don’t be cheated Friday offer is priced at 2500/= for the minimum offer and 5,000/= for the bucket day offer.

OFFER	Minimum Price	Maximum Price
Freaky Friday	3000/=	5000/=
Don't Be Cheated	2500/=	5000/=

Depending on the price scale between Freaky Friday and don’t be cheated, Africell seems to have a juiced affordable package than the original Friday offer creator. So, when it comes to the price, we are not sidelining with any of the telcos, but Africell really kills it with its offer low by 500/= which can be substituted to 2 days worth of OTT tax with a 100/= balance.

How to Activate Don’t be cheated or Airtel’s Freaky Friday offer

The two offers by Africell and Airtel are clearly sweet by the competition stunts where both telcos want to dominate Fridays. However, the two offers are activated differently and here is how you can do that on both Airtel and Africell.

Africell Don’t be cheated code

• Dial *133#
• Select Option 7
• Choose a desired offer depending on your airtime balance

Airtel Freaky Friday code

• Dial *149#
• Choose option 10
• Choose a desired offer depending on your airtime balance

Compiling up the affordability and bulk data Friday offers between Airtel’s Freaky Friday and Don’t be cheated. We think Africell is a lion on both sides giving MTN severe headache on Wednesdays though it has a 24hr limit as the Yello camp teases 3 days.

It’s by no surprise that the competition is sweet for everyone with a dual sim smartphone switching between packages like a car gear ballpoint. Nonetheless, if you have used or still use any of these two data offers, share with us your experience by voting for your best in the poll below or make your voice heard in the comments section below.

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Earlier this year, one would get 4GB Data at only 2500/= on both MTN and Africell’s Don’t be cheated Wednesdays. However, with Airtel, you get the data mixed up with free bonus minutes to call anyone on the network. Must we bid farewell to the Gaga offers now? Well, with the current End of week offer by Airtel, the mid week offer is worth to skip and dial the Airtel codes for some extra data throughout the new week

How to Activate the Airtel Freaky Friday offers

Unlike the Gaga offer that requires you to download and install the MY MTN app, Airtel’s giving away the offer with a vice-versa streak. To subscribe and buy the Freaky Friday offer, dial *149*10# which takes to the end of week offer that usually has two packages below 5000/=

• Dial *149#
• Select Option 10
• Choose a Package
• Select billing option to purchase offer

  

Just like that, you can get 3GB of data and 100 minutes for as low as 5,000/= and 2GB + 30 minutes at 3K valid for 3 days and 24hrs respectively by the time of writing. What beats such a ballistic 3-day offer? MTN & Africell will have to change their Wednesday offers to what the new minutes * data offer from Airtel every Friday