T2 Mobile is the smallest of Nigeria’s four networks and the one people know least about. It’s also the one where published plan information goes stale fastest, partly because of the 9mobile rebrand and partly because prices moved across the whole industry.
Here’s what the plans actually look like now, how to buy them, and an honest read on whether T2 is worth being on at all.
Read This Before Any Price List, Including This One
The single most useful thing on this page: dial *312# and read the menu on your own line. That’s the live, authoritative source. Everything else, including this article, is a snapshot.
There’s a reason to be careful here. In early 2025 the NCC approved a 50% tariff increase and all four networks raised prices within weeks. MTN briefly attempted a much larger increase before reversing it. A ₦1,000 plan that used to give 1.5GB became a ₦1,500 plan for 2GB across the industry.
What that means practically is that a large amount of published T2 pricing online is pre-hike, or was copied from a source that was. If you see a guide promising very generous bundles at low prices with no date attached, treat it as fiction. The figures below reflect published listings from early 2026, and even those are worth confirming before you pay.
T2 Data Plans and Direct Codes
The useful thing here is the direct USSD code for each plan, which skips the menu entirely. Dial the code and confirm.
Daily
| Plan | Price | Direct code |
|---|---|---|
| 40MB | ₦50 | *229*3*8# |
| 83MB + 50MB social | ₦100 | *229*3*1# |
| 150MB + 100MB night | ₦150 | *229*3*15# |
| 250MB | ₦200 | *229*3*2# |
Daily plans are the worst value per megabyte on any network, T2 included. They’re for emergencies, not for regular use. If you find yourself buying ₦200 daily bundles four or five times a week, a monthly plan will cost you less for more data.
Weekly
| Plan | Price | Direct code |
|---|---|---|
| 650MB + 100MB social | ₦500 | *229*4*16# |
| 3.4GB | ₦1,500 | *229*2*2# |
The ₦1,500 plan is the one worth knowing about if you don’t want to commit monthly. Students between semesters, people testing the network, or anyone whose income arrives weekly rather than monthly.
Monthly
| Plan | Price | Roughly per GB | Direct code |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2GB | ₦1,000 | ₦500 | *229*2*7# |
| 2.3GB | ₦1,200 | ₦522 | *229*2*25# |
| 4.5GB | ₦2,000 | ₦444 | *229*2*8# |
| 5.2GB | ₦2,500 | ₦481 | *229*2*16# |
| 6.2GB | ₦3,000 | ₦484 | *229*2*5# |
| 8.4GB | ₦4,000 | ₦476 | *229*2*36# |
Look at the per-GB column rather than the headline number. The 4.5GB at ₦2,000 is the best rate in the monthly range, and it’s better value than the ₦2,500 and ₦3,000 plans sitting just above it. Paying more does not automatically get you a better rate, which is the single most common mistake people make buying data.
If ₦4,000 fits your budget, the 8.4GB is the practical pick. It’s close to the same rate as the 4.5GB and saves you a mid-month top-up.
T2 does offer larger bundles above this, along with social-only plans like a Facebook bundle, and mixed voice-and-data offers on certain tariff plans. Those change more often than the core lineup, so check *312# rather than trusting a number you read anywhere.
Buying and Checking
- USSD: dial *312# for the full menu, or the direct plan codes above. *312# is the NCC-standardised data code and works the same way on every Nigerian network.
- My T2mobile app: pay by airtime, card or transfer, and see your plan details in one place.
- Check your balance: dial *323#. Choose the detailed option to see main data, night data and bonuses separately, which matters if your plan splits them.
- Customer care: dial 300, the standard number across all Nigerian networks.
Third-party data resellers advertise small discounts on network bundles. They can work, but you’re handing your payment to a company that isn’t your network, and a failed transaction becomes their problem to resolve rather than T2’s. On a ₦2,000 plan the saving is a few naira. Judge accordingly.
The Honest Picture on T2 as a Network
This is where most articles get promotional. Here’s the actual position.
The good, and it’s genuinely good. The NCC’s Q4 2025 industry report ranked T2 first in Nigeria for rural download speeds at around 24.9 Mbps, and second nationally for overall user experience. For a network with T2’s reputation, that’s a striking result, and it reflects real investment in spectrum, roaming and upgrades.
The roaming deal matters most. T2’s national roaming agreement with MTN means that where T2’s own towers don’t reach, your phone can use MTN’s. That addresses the historical complaint about T2 more directly than anything else the company has done.
The uncomfortable part. T2 holds roughly 1.8% market share with about 3.22 million subscribers, and it recorded the highest net port-out losses of any Nigerian network in 2025: around 28,000 customers left, and fewer than 100 came in the other direction. Its internet subscriber base fell below one million in 2025 before beginning a modest recovery late in the year.
Both things are true at once. The network performs well on the technical measures, and people are still leaving it. If you’re deciding whether to switch, that tension is the honest summary: T2 is better than its reputation, and its reputation is still costing it customers.
Should T2 Be Your Main Line?
Worth it if coverage is decent where you actually spend your time, you want a cheaper second line for data while keeping MTN or Airtel for calls, or you’re in a rural area where those NCC speed figures might work in your favour.
Think twice if you need one line that works everywhere without thinking about it, you rely on your phone for work and can’t tolerate dead spots, or your number is tied to bank alerts and OTPs you cannot afford to miss. That last one is the real risk, and it’s worth weighing properly.
The sensible way to test it: buy a T2 SIM, put ₦1,500 on the weekly plan, and run it for a week at home, at work and on your usual routes before moving anything important onto it. If you’re on an old 9mobile line, here’s how to link it to the T2 network.
Getting More Out of Whatever Plan You Buy
- Use night allocations properly. If your plan includes night data, schedule system updates, app downloads and offline downloads for the small hours. Our T2 night data guide covers those plans specifically.
- Renew before expiry for rollover. Unused data generally carries forward when you renew the same plan before it runs out. Set a reminder for day 29.
- Kill background data. Disable autoplay on Facebook, Instagram and X, turn off automatic app updates, and restrict background data on apps you don’t need running.
- Know the social bundles. If most of your usage is WhatsApp and Facebook, a social bundle can be far cheaper than general data. Our guide to T2 social media bundles and codes has the details. Note that WhatsApp voice and video calls usually pull from your main data, not the social allowance.
- Use Wi-Fi for the heavy stuff. Large downloads and HD streaming on Wi-Fi where you can. If your home connection is the problem, our cheapest unlimited WiFi plans comparison is worth a look.
How T2 Compares
Glo consistently offers the most data per naira of any Nigerian network, with the trade-off being inconsistent speed and coverage outside Lagos and Abuja. MTN is the safest choice for coverage everywhere. Airtel sits close to MTN on price and competes well in cities.
T2’s pricing is competitive rather than cheapest. What it’s genuinely selling is speed and quality of experience at a small-network price, backed by MTN roaming for the gaps. Whether that’s the right trade depends almost entirely on where you live and work, which is why the week-long test above beats any comparison table.
If you take one thing from this page: 4.5GB for ₦2,000 is the best rate in T2’s monthly lineup, and *312# is the only source that’s always current. Check the menu before you pay, whatever any article tells you the price should be.
