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...Wednesday, October 14, 2009
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...Saturday, October 3, 2009
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...Thursday, August 27, 2009
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...Friday, July 3, 2009
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...Friday, April 17, 2009
The jury is out on who is the media leader in our contemporary world. On one side of the divide is the mainstream media, represented by CNN a leading international TV broadcaster and on the other side is social media, represented by Ashton Kutcher an American actor and former fashion model. I first got wind of [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, May 23, 2007
I am saying Short Messaging Service (SMS) via cellular networks has become mainstream in Ghana, because corporate and government institutions are now embracing it as an effective medium of communicating to the populace. Before now, I have been receiving text messages from time to time, from my bank (UBA Ghana), and other few companies. I was [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 14, 2006
There is no denying the fact that the Western world is far ahead with technology, nonetheless, web technologies. So many web tools/applications are out there that are irrelevant to African countries. Services like Paypal, Ebay, Yahoo! Music Unlimited, Free SMS websites, readily comes to mind. It is important therefore that Africans can themselves build such web [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, May 3, 2006
Skype has released an updated version of its popular Skype software, for PCs running Windows XP. The new version (still in beta), features more value added services and allows subscribers to send SMS, globally, at a fee. Calling phone lines has also been made easier since country codes are now built into the software and all [...]
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