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.

Previously, the telco placed the Gaga Wednesday offer on a pause due to the current COVID19 Pandemic that so far shows no signs to slow down any time soon.

Now, MTN Gaga as commonly denoted has resurrected to play with a full 3-day schedule routing through Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and an expiry limit on Saturday.

If compared to rival offers like Airtel’s Freaky Friday, Gaga brings to play balanced offers that often roam between UGX 3,500 to UGX 6,000 available for purchase through the MY MTN App.

Much more like a resurrection stunt, the current Gaga offer stands at UGX 6,000 for 5GB data valid for 3 days. However, the offer is volatile, so, we expect variations in the offer as users regain interest in MTN’s only midweek offer.

How to load MTN’s Gaga Wednesday Offers in 2020

It’s 2020, and a lot has changed with how MTN Uganda arranges its offers timeline. But for Gaga, nothing has changed and so, you must load the offer through the telco’s official MTN Momo (MYMTN App) available on the Google and Apple store.

How to swiftly subscribe to the 2020 MTN Gaga Wednesday offers

• Download the MY MTN App
• Click the Data Bundles tab within the App and locate Gaga Wednesday
• Select your preferred Gaga offer and choose whether to load it on your account or gift a Friend
• Once selected, load your offer by approving purchase on your Mobile Money (momo) account
• Done: Enjoy your 3-day Gaga Offer

At the moment, MTN Gaga Wednesday is back, but we hope the offer stays for a while before it is paused by the telco. For now, MTN Gaga has rejoined the race with Airtel’s Freaky Friday and Africell’s Don’t be cheated as clear competitive offers.

Though MTN Gaga time sounds like a minified version of MTN Gaga Wednesday, the two offers differ with the former being a daily offer, and the latter only available on mid-week Wednesdays off the MTN Momo App.

How to activate MTN Gaga Time

Using MTN Uganda Shortcodes

1. Dial *150*1# (Mobile Internet)
2. Select Buy a Bundle (Option 1)
3. Select Gaga Time (Option 5)
4. Choose between 2GB at 2,000/= or 4GB at 4,000/=
5. Select Payment method (Airtime or Mobile Money)
6. Done: You can use the offer from 12:00 am to 10:00 am

Using the MTN Momo App

1. Login to your MTN Momo Account
2. Scroll down and Choose Data Bundles
3. Choose Who you would like to buy for, Self or Another
4. Under the Daily tab, scroll to locate Gaga time captions
5. Then, choose between 2GB at 2,000/= and 4GB at 4,000/= to activate
6. Confirm Payment and Enjoy your offer valid from Midnight to 10:00am

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

While MTN Uganda ended the Gaga Wednesday promotion earlier this year citing bigger promotions on its annual ladder. The revamped Gaga Wednesday promotion comes at a time when the competition is steadily ready to tame offers from the Yello camp after the spiky Dabolo campaign.

Revamped with a new module, MTN’s Gaga Wednesday data now features a Me2U like algorithm where you can now load the package for another subscriber using your account.

From the Friday caliber, Airtel introduced freaky Fridays after learning about the Mid-Week competition between MTN and Africell, But still the orange camp didn’t let its wings lose and introduced Don’t be cheated Fridays.

As the first day in the competition jungle, MTN’s gaga offer has been kickstarted with a 4GB offer at UGX 5,000 announced on the telco’s digital platfroms. However, Africell hit the offer with a response of 2GB at UGX 2,500. So, the competition is a favorable dish for dual sim subscribers

How to load the new MTN Gaga Wednesday data offers, the codes you need

First things first, MTN Gaga is restricted to only MY MTN App users as the promo’s Golden days had it. Interestingly the app is free to use and it comes with lightweight advantages meaning its a must-have App for MTN Subscribers.

To load an MTN Gaga offer on a Wednesday like this, all you have to do is to have your data turned on and buckle through your data tabs to tickle the Gaga offer through these procedures

As the Timeframe has it, The end of MTN’s Gaga promotion is an ignition of a much bigger and better promotion that has not been revealed by the Yello camp as yet. However, we suspect this to be a reveal Friday swap reveal that features Airtel’s Freaky lane and Africell as its rival in the yard.

At First, Gaga Wednesday bundles were valid for 24hrs and users had the ability to extend the subscribed offers to any duration by simply keeping up with the expiry times. Though MTN changed this formation earlier this year, you can’t deny the fact that this is the most affordable data craze that has always kept Yello subscribers waiting for when a Wednesday shines again.

So What Next after MTN’s Gaga Wedneday Offer?

The heartbreaking announcement published today morning off the MTN Uganda Twitter page has not only shaked digital Wednesdays but also extended a series of positive spikes to Friday that now becomes the default weekly data marathon day.

MTN Uganda @mtnug tweeted: We are going to miss #GagaWithMTN and we know you will too. But worry not, something bigger is coming. https://twitter.com/mtnug/status/1133642587519299584

So as the MTN Gaga Journey that has spanned for almost 2 years in Uganda comes to a close. Competing telcos of Africell and Airtel now have a head to head battle to prove who houses better offers after the end of their biggest rival.

More so, we are not sure whether Africell will continue with its Wednesday offer that was started in the Gaga flares or induct more power-ups for its 3-day Friday alternative. Nonetheless, Gaga Wednesday has been one of the best data offers yet, and subscribers will surely miss every node of the amazing mid-week offer that relied on the MY MTN App.