Save Your Phone and Sim Contacts With MTN Backup

MTN Backup is a service available to MTN Nigeria subscribers which allows them to save their mobile phone and sim contacts. With MTN Sim Backup, you will make sure that you don't loose your contacts in case of misplacement, theft or damage. The service is cheap and very easy to use.

To backup your MTN Nigeria phone and sim contacts, you will need to get an MTN Backup Sim for 150 Naira. This sim card is available throughout the country and you can get one at any MTN Customer Care Center around you.

After you might have gotten the MTN Backup Sim the next step for you is to go to "MTN Services" on your phone menu. Then click on "MTN Sim Plus", followed by "MTN Backup", then "Back up Sim Contacts".

After doing that you will have to wait for MTN to send you a message welcoming you to the MTN Backup service. The message will contain the MTN Backup web address, login number, i.e. your MTN number, and the password you will use to access that web address.

Alternatively, you can get your phone and sim contacts backed uo and saved using MTN Backup by going to https://mtnonline.weballynis.gemalto.com/gemaltobackup/default/login.vhtml

COST:
The first backup that you will do costs 100 Naira, while the subsequent backups will cost 50 Naira. Restoring your contacts after the sim swap will also cost 50 Naira. These rates apply irrespective of the number of contacts that is backed up.

There are a lot of companies that can provide you with back up services if you are not an MTN Nigeria subscriber or if you don't want to use it. One of them is Optus Zoo - just visit www.mobile.optuszoo.com.au/cocoon/welcome/welcome.do