UAE Tourists to receive Free Mobile SIM cards on Arrival with free data and International calls

Media IN Abu Dhabi: 5th-07-2019 WAM

Tourists arriving in the UAE will soon be gifted free mobile phone SIM cards with free data, international calling minutes and text messages, the Federal Authority for Identity and Citizenship announced in Abu Dhabi.

The free tourist friendly SIM cards will be valid for a month and they will get automatically renewed if the tourist extends their visa.

The agreement between the authority and TeleKomNow was signed at the authority’s headquarters in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday by Colonel Khamees Al Kaabi, executive director for Musanada Services at the authority and Charbel Fawaz Litany, chairman and CEO of TeleKomNow.

He added that “Tourists will get the SIM card from the passport control officer on arrival as a gift,”

“It will contain data and talk time, which they can recharge anywhere in the country.”