MTN introduced Data Auto renewal designed to help their customers to stay connected at all time without any interruption but sometimes you might not need data auto renewal and will like to deactivate it at all cost but the question remains how for those who don’t know how to deactivate it.
In this post, you will learn how to activate and deactivate MTN data auto renewal per your wish and if that is why you are here then you are at the right place.
What is data auto renewal
Before we proceed on how to activate or deactivate MTN auto renewal we need to understand what data auto renewal is all about.
Data auto renewal is a system used to renewal you current data plan automatically even without your requesting for it though, your consent might be required to activate such services on your line which is designed to keep you connected and avoid interruption.
Why you might need to deactivate data auto-renewal on your line
Network operators introduced auto-renewal services with good intention but sometimes it brings you pain if you don’t use wisely and below are the disadvantages of data auto renewal.
- Your data plan might be renewed automatically even when you are not prepared to buy another data simply because you forgot to cancel auto-renewal services on your line.
- What if you kept some call credit on your phone for an important call only to receive a notification that your data plan has been renewed and so, so amount of credit debited from your account even when data is the least of the things you need at the moment.
Auto-renewal might not be the best choice for many but sometimes you will not even understand how and when you activated it on your line but if you want out then you problem will certainly be solved before leaving this page.
How to Activate and Deactivate MTN auto-renewal on your line
Mtn made it easier for you to decide by providing this table below with the codes to activate or deactivate their data auto renewal whenever you feel like which includes their various data plans and subscription codes.
| Price (N) | Data Plans | Validity Period | Activation | Auto-renewal Code | Deactivation Code | |||
| Data Allowance | Time of Use | (SMS to 131) | (USSD) | SMS (R Code 131) | SMS (No Code 131) | |||
| Daily | 100 | 50MB | All day | 24HRS | 104 | *131*104# | R104 | NO104 |
| 200 | 150MB | All day | 24HRS | 113 | *131*113# | R113 | NO113 | |
| Weekly | 300 | 150MB | All day | 7 Days | 102 | *131*102# | R102 | NO102 |
| 500 | 500MB + 250MB bonus data* | Main data-All day Bonus-1am to 7am | 7 Days | 103 | *131*103# | R103 | NO103 | |
| Monthly | 1000 | 1GB + 500MB bonus data* | Main data-All day Bonus-1am to 7am | 30 Days | 106 | *131*106# | R106 | NO106 |
| 1200 | 1.5GB | All day | 30 Days | 130 | *131*130# | R130 | NO130 | |
| 2000 | 2.5GB + 1GB bonus data* | Main data-All day Bonus-1am to 7am | 30 Days | 110 | *131*110# | R110 | NO110 | |
| 3500 | 5GB | All day | 30 Days | 107 | *131*107# | R107 | NO107 | |
| 5,000 | 10GB | All day | 30 Days | 116 | *131*116# | R116 | NO116 | |
| 10,000 | 22GB | All day | 30 Days | 117 | *131*117# | R117 | NO117 | |
| 20,000 | 50GB | All day | 60 Days | 118 | *131*118# | R118 | NO118 | |
| 50,000 | 85GB | All day | 90 Days | 133 | *131*133# | R133 | NO133 | |
According to this table above you simply need to choose the plan you activated on your line and send the deactivation code to 131 as an SMS.
Example:
If I subscribed to MTN monthly data plan of N5000 to get 10GB of data then I will send NO116 to 131 to deactivate the auto-renewal service to avoid being charged N5000 when am not prepared to buy another data but if I wish to give them permission to auto-renew my data once I reached expiration date or have exhausted my data then I will send R116 to 131.
Am sure you have learned how to activate or deactivate MTN data auto-renewal with the above examples but if you are still not sure don’t hesitate to ask any question I will be happy to help.