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Is Kenya beating Nigeria in Internet Business Opportunities?
This blog post is in reaction to The 3 Reasons Why Kenya is Beating Nigeria in Internet Business Opportunities as published by ICTworks. I was perplexed at the title of the blog post. Could the author Wayan Vota simply be courting controversy as a means of drawing traffic to the blog? I would attempt to review [...]
Continue reading...A review of MTN Nigeria Mobile Broadband service
21 February 2010 ~ 873 views
I picked-up an MTN Nigeria mobile broadband kit recently and have used it heavily, since then. Find below my review of the service. The entire kit cost N18,650: HSDPA USB stick: N8,500 MTN SIM: N150 Airtime: N10,000 (24/7 monthly plan) The MTN agent asked for an ID and passport photo. As I had no prior knowledge they would demand this, [...]
Continue reading...Kenya: Mobile Web East Africa 2010. Free MobileWorld magazines.
2 February 2010 ~ 611 views
Nairobi, Kenya – Mobile Web East Africa, an event that focuses on “harnessing the potential of the internet and applications on mobile devices”, starts tomorrow 3rd February 2010 and ends on 4th February 2010, at Intercontinental Hotel in Nairobi. The innovative event already has a long roll-call of speakers and facilitators, and has special round-table sessions [...]
Continue reading...A review of MTN Ghana Mobile Broadband service
24 December 2009 ~ 2,137 views
With over 7.4 million subscribers as of September 2009, MTN is easily Ghana’s leading telecommunications network, offering mobile telephony services, Internet connectivity and more. I recently picked up an MTN “Exclusive 3G Pack” for 100 Ghana Cedis (about $69) and have used it extensively for about 14 days mainly in Accra. The information below is based [...]
Continue reading...How I found my way to MEST Accra on Google Maps Mobile
22 December 2009 ~ 916 views
Meltwater Entrepreneural School of Technology (MEST) in East Legon (a suburb of Accra, Ghana) was the venue of the just-concluded BarCamp Ghana 2009. Aside having interacted with some of the entrepreneurs-in-training (as their students are called) in the past, I knew little about MEST and had no idea of its exact location within East Legon. I [...]
Continue reading...Mobile Web East Africa 2010 for Nairobi Kenya
9 December 2009 ~ 656 views
Mobile Web East Africa takes place between 3rd and 4th February 2010 in Nairobi, Kenya. From the organizers: Following the unrivalled success of Mobile Web Africa, which was a true “sell-out” conference held in South Africa in October, Mobile Web East Africa is the next in a series of progressive and innovative events to focus on [...]
Continue reading...My expectations of Glo Mobile Ghana
29 November 2009 ~ 4,276 views
Glo Mobile is very likely to be launched in Ghana before the end of this year 2009. Having shifted their launch date severally, a launch in December 2009 seems imminent. Glo Mobile’s entry into Ghana comes at a time when Ghana’s mobile communications industry appears to be saturated already. For a population of about 22 million [...]
Continue reading...MTN Ghana, stop the spamming!
14 October 2009 ~ 1,572 views
MTN Ghana is annoying a lot of their subscribers with the persistent text messages from 2010, yours truly included. All a subscriber has to do is text “Go” to the number 2010 and he/she is then burdened with the misfortune of being bombarded with text messages morning, afternoon and evening entreating him/her to keep texting [...]
Continue reading...Text2fly.com.ng: Check domestic flights availability in Nigeria by SMS
3 October 2009 ~ 2,449 views
Each time I had a tough time travelling within Nigeria, I always wished there was an electronic Nigerian travel information service that met the needs of the business traveller. A service that offered flight, hotel, car rental information via SMS, mobile web or a full-fledged website. Though there are several websites that offer air travel [...]
Continue reading...Why I would use an iPhone
29 August 2009 ~ 1,141 views
There has been a lot of hype around Apple’s keyboard-less smartphone device, the iPhone. I have not used it because no cellular network offers iPhones in Ghana. I did a blog post at Mobile Africa yesterday, highlighting why I would jump on the iPhone bandwagon. Enjoy: Why I would use an iPhone.
Continue reading...MTN Nigeria, SAT3 Woes, IT convergence & Why West Africa needs more sub-marine connectivity
27 August 2009 ~ 1,212 views
The Internet is a very powerful medium of communication. IP protocol (the backbone technology of the Internet) allows just about any data to be encoded and transmitted from node to the other. Riding on this power and ubiquity, many means of communication in today’s world are now increasingly relying on the Internet. Projections are that [...]
Continue reading...Vote for your African Telecom Company of the Year!
24 August 2009 ~ 1,053 views
MobileWorld magazine, a leading telecommunications publication, which focuses on Africa, has announced plans to stage its first awards for the telecommunication industry in the continent. You can read the rest of the official press release at Mobile Africa. Voting is open on the MobileWorld Telecom Africa Awards website. Open categories include: African Fixed Line Operator of the Year African [...]
Continue reading...Vodafone, Zain, MTN, Tigo, Glo Mobile and their competition in Ghana
22 July 2009 ~ 10,885 views
With the entry of international telecoms giant Vodafone into the Ghanaian telecoms industry, things would never be the same again. Matter-of-fact, the telecoms industry is very exciting at this time because Ghana is the meeting point of some African and international telecoms giants: MTN, Tigo, Vodafone, Zain, and soon-to-launch Glo Mobile. The main thrust of [...]
Continue reading...Are mobile phones good for your health?
3 July 2009 ~ 5,451 views
The shrieking SMS ringtone from a phone woke me up at 12:39am. I could not sleep thereafter. After tossing from one end of the bed to the other for another 10 minutes and still being awake, I resorted to doing the only thing natural for a geek like me; powering my laptop computer to get [...]
Continue reading...Zain Ghana and ‘their’ zainportal.com
18 June 2009 ~ 3,347 views
Apparently in a bid to rival MTN Ghana’s mtnloaded.com.gh, Zain Ghana is launching its own content portal for its subscribers. The competition on the mobile front in Ghana has been between MTN and Zain in recent times. There is a problem however. The web address Zain is advertising doesn’t belong to them and doesn’t contain [...]
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- Is Kenya beating Nigeria in Internet Business Opportunities?
- How Aero Contractors offers very low airfares. The catches!
- A review of MTN Nigeria Mobile Broadband service
- Erik introduces iHub @ Skunkworks in Nairobi, Kenya
- Kenya: Mobile Web East Africa 2010. Free MobileWorld magazines.
- BarCamp Ghana 2009 Live Report
- Jobberman.com: A Job Search Website for Nigeria
- Mobile Web East Africa 2010 for Nairobi Kenya
- More Naira dot-com Websites
- Big Brother Africa 4 (2009): The Revolution. Housemates. Forum.
- Multi TV Ghana, a new free digital satellite TV service [updated]
- e.Tv now in Ghana
- Early review of Multi TV + Satellite information
- President Obama in Ghana. Why not Nigeria?
- My expectations of Glo Mobile Ghana
- Nigeria: Why do you use Liberty Reserve?
- Re-branding Nigeria, a charade
- Vodafone, Zain, MTN, Tigo, Glo Mobile and their competition in Ghana
- Earthquake scare in Ghana. Is Ghana prepared?
- Man G from nigeria: Happy weekend all. Pls our darling multi tv,i.ll like you to gradually spread your tentacles to other european leagues like turkey dutch russia be...
- Moses Tei Nartey: I am really impressed for the initiave that has taken by your company (Glo)to estiblish in ghana which i discribe it as a good tele-communication net-...
- Shittu: After enjoying the peace in Ghana for all these years you open your mouth and say Nigeria and Kenya are better than Ghana in EVERYTHING!!!! Man go was...
- Ismaila Ibrahim kira: bbchausa mu na jindadin shirye-shiryen ku. Allah ya taimake ku amin....
- Justin: Fair enough, might just get an unlocked modem and only buy the card from MTN, so I can switch between provider when I travel between countries. Thx....
- Peprah-Amankona: I praying unceasingly to see the veryday glo will start operating in order increase the keen competition in the communication industry.i am a gradua...
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