At face value, it may not seem like there’s any reason to be fussy about which phone makes and models one uses. But 7 years and over 35 phones have taught me that there are situations in which it does matter.
I am writing on this subject because of an interesting occurence tonight. For weeks now, [...]
A while back (about three months ago, to be more precise), MTN launched their 3G bundle packages. In all honesty they were (and still are) the best data bundle packages in the Nigerian mobile data industry. Here at MobiNaija, we jumped on the MTN 3G platform, as we depend on the internet for our day-to-day [...]
Customer care for me is probably the most component of service delivery. As such, I embarked on a journey to assess the new entrant’s into the GSM fray, measuring Etisalat’s competence at customer service delivery against the backdrop of prevalent practices in the industry.
Will it be fair to assess them so soon? It may [...]
As far back as 2006, the BBC had reported that in July of that year, 61% of its international traffic from mobile devices (a whopping 13.2 million page views in one month alone) was from Nigeria. At that time, I presented that as evidence to convince those who maintained that Nigerians do not use their [...]
Anyone who is familiar with the mobile internet terrain in Nigeria must be already aware of the numerous free browsing tricks in circulation.
It started innocently years ago with one or two individuals stumbling on a loophole in the settings of one or more GSM networks and simply riding on that to enjoy the free internet [...]
This article was informed by the media war between new GSM entrant, Etisalat whose rally cry is, “Now you’re talking”, and MTN who has launched a new media campaign with the rider, “Much more than talk”. Obviously, this is MTN’s response to Etisalat.
And MTN has a point, I must admit. Yes; at present, Etisalat has [...]
This morning, at one end of Lagos, I drove to a Sweet Sensation outlet to pick up my reserved Etisalat SIM. I had the SMS detailing my reservation and passcode with me.
I was kept waiting for about an hour (technical hitches, understandably). Thereafter, I was informed that my number had not been reserved!
How the system [...]
Etisalat’s mobile internet tariff leaves me perplexed. The new entrant has announced a tariff of 35 kobo per kb for subscribers who choose to use its EDGE-based data service. Modern EDGE networks deliver a maximum speed of 384kbps (same as 3G networks).
This is however a far cry from the 3.6mbps to 7.2mbps that 3.5G (HSDPA) [...]
The following video seems authentic enough. But, who knows?
In this video, a 15-year old Norwegian demonstrates a programme he has written to make it possible to dual-boot his iPhone to run either of OSX or Windows Mobile. If this is for real, I wonder what Mr. Steve Jobs would have to say about it.
Mobile internet service has come of age in Nigeria. A few years ago when I got my first GPRS-enabled smartphone, most Nigerians had never heard of GPRS. Years down the road, demand for mobile internet service is a force that no serious operator ignores. From CDMA-based providers to GSM networks, each operator is waking up [...]
