Mobile | Oluniyi D. Ajao

A review of MTN Nigeria Mobile Broadband service

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, [...]

Mobile Web East Africa 2010 Photos

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

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Mobile Web East Africa 2010 conference photos. Click on the photos for a larger view. Some rights reserved.

Mobile Web East Africa 2010 for Nairobi Kenya

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

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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 [...]

Vodafone, Zain, MTN, Tigo, Glo Mobile and their competition in Ghana

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

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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 [...]

African Mobile Marketing & Advertising Summit 2008

Monday, May 5, 2008

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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 [...]

Free Midnight Calls: Are they worth it?

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

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Free midnight calls as offered by cellular network operators have been around for a few years now. Thanks to competition, just about every major cellular network in Ghana and Nigeria offer[ed] free midnight calls in one form or the other. These networks include MTN, Celtel, glo mobile in Nigeria as well Tigo, MTN, Kasapa and [...]

Poor Internet Service delivery in Nigeria. The need to take on the ISPs.

Saturday, February 2, 2008

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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 [...]

Google Adsense for Mobile

Tuesday, September 18, 2007

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I was pleasantly surprised this morning to see that Google Adsense for mobiles had been activated on my Adsense account. I did not waste in integrating the code for the WAP version of Mobile Africa which is available for mobiles at the URL: mobileafrica.mobi I have tried accessing the URL myself using a Nokia 3250 and [...]

Mobile TV in Ghana

Sunday, July 29, 2007

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A terrestrial digital mobile TV service has been launched in Accra Ghana, named BlackStar TV. According to the operators, this is the first implementation of the T-DMB technology on the African continent. According to Wikipedia, Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (DMB) is a digital radio transmission system for sending multimedia (radio, TV, and datacasting) to mobile devices such as [...]

Google News for Mobile

Tuesday, February 28, 2006

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A few hours ago, I went to news.google.com as I routinely did, but was automatically re-directed to an XHTML version of the good old Google News. I was using Opera 8 browser and knew that what I was looking at was meant for mobiles. Opera has the ability to render WAP pages and this is handy [...]