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...Sunday, February 21, 2010
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...Thursday, December 24, 2009
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...Sunday, November 29, 2009
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...Monday, May 5, 2008
Lagos is playing host to Africa’s first Mobile Marketing & Advertising Summit come May 21st 2008. The event which would be hosted by Instinct Media publishers of Mobile World magazine, aims to provide stakeholders with insight into opportunities in mobile advertising and marketing in Africa, as well as strategies to tap into them, says Instinct Media’s [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, February 2, 2008
I do not know why the government or its agencies do not call the erring Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in Nigeria to order. Perhaps, the federal government and state government institutions, the regulatory body Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), the federal and state legislature(s) and other leading institutions in Nigeria are all connected to the Internet [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, November 14, 2006
Well, the boistreous wave of third generation mobile technology is sweeping across Nigeria gradually. Celtel Nigeria has now launched its 3G service at a ceremony in Abuja last week. It’s still in a test mode and the launch was a demo for members of the National Assembly, officials of the NCC and some stakeholders in the [...]
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