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Upper case GPRS/EDGE – means that BlackBerry service is active and functioning.

International Airtime Transfer is a service that will allow stc Prepaid subscribers to transfer a small amount of their prepaid credit to an overseas prepaid mobile account.

USSD Channel

• a) Dial *109# from your mobile.
• b) You will then be asked to reply with the mobile number to which you want to transfer credit to.
• c) You will receive 4 denominations, which you can transfer - for the correct mobile operator & country based on the MSISDN sent in Step 2.
• d) Reply with the recharge denomination you want to send top-up for - 1, 2, 3 or 4.
• e) You will be asked to confirm the transaction and informed that the charges will be made to you prepaid account.
• f) You will then be charged to your prepaid account, the rates which are stated in the USSD menu based on customer’s choice of denomination and destinations.

SMS Channel

• a) Send an SMS to 109 with the mobile number of another prepaid customer in the destination country (such as India) - to whom you want to transfer credit.
• b) You will then receive 4 denominations that you can transfer - for the correct mobile operator & country based on the MSISDN sent in Step (a).
• c) Reply with the recharge denomination you want to send top up for - 1, 2, 3 or 4
• d) You will then be charged to your prepaid account, the rates which are stated in the SMS menu based on your choice of denomination and destinations.

You can transfer the prepaid credits from your stc Prepaid mobile number to another prepaid mobile number outside Bahrain, out of the list of supported countries.

India, Philippines, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Jordan, Egypt, Morocco, Syria, Sudan, Malaysia, Palestine, Nigeria, China, Yemen, Turkey, Tunisia, Afghanistan, Ghana, Russia and USA

No. This service is only for sending credit and not receiving credit

No. Currently the service does not support this feature.

No. The only criterion is that you should have sufficient prepaid credit for that particular transaction. For example: You want to transfer 100 INR to a prepaid mobile in India, you should have sufficient prepaid balance (BD in this case) to carry out the transaction.

You can do 10 transactions per day and total of 30 transactions per month.

You can transfer up to BD 50 per day and up to BD 250 per month.