MTN Uganda One Network Area (ONA)

MTN Uganda One Network Area (ONA), The One Network Area, aka ONA, allows MTN customers to travel anywhere in Kenya, Rwanda, and South Sudan with their MTN number. Within the ONA Region, MTN customers are able to load airtime using the visited country’s recharge cards, receive calls for free.

One Network Area (ONA) MTN Uganda

On arrival
Simply switch on your phone and a domestic network will automatically be selected.
Once the network has been selected
Manually search for the specific partner network on your phone by selecting ‘settings’, then ‘phone settings’ followed by ‘network selection’ and then ‘manual selection’

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You will receive a choice of networks; select our partner network in the country you’re visiting

Kenya: Safaricom
Rwanda: MTN
South Sudan: MTN
Tanzania: Vodacom

Airtime recharge
Conveniently top-up your airtime while roaming by purchasing any of our partner’s airtime vouchers (only applicable to MTN PayAsYouGo customers), and load it onto your MTN phone as follows:

Safaricom *148*1*accessnumber#
MTN Rwanda *148*7*accessnumber#
Vodacom *148*3*accessnumber#

Cost Table

Country Safaricom Kenya
(in UShs)
MTN Rwanda (in UShs) MTN South Sudan
(in UShs)
Kenya (in UShs) Rwanda
(in UShs)
Receive calls* in UShs 0 ​0 0 0 0
Local partner calls in UShs 360 360 360 360 360
Other local calls in UShs 360 360 360 360 360
Calls back home in UShs 360 360 360 360 360
Calling East Africa in UShs 1 500 360 360 360 360
International calls in UShs 1 500 1 500 17 700 18 000 6 000
Satellite calls in UShs 30 000 30 000 29 000 34 000 49 000
Receive SMS in UShs 0 0 0 0 0
Send SMS in UShs 300 300 300 1 900 900
Internet in UShs 0.80 0.80 400 200 400