Osyxcel: 4G-LTE, a possibility, but we won't have it until other countries have moved on to better ones. That's how things work in Nigeria, always behind in technological advancement.

With their yeye 3.75G netwrk, I've never attained 1mb/s speed before.

Yoshi-Master:


Well truth is we do not wanna be stuck with just 3G for too long, when other countries have progressed to high speed connections, some pushing out about 50mbps.

There is a company that is presently working on laying fibre around Abuja, connecting to the already available ducts that have been placed at strategic locations.

I just can't wait for development like that to spread across the country.

If Nitel had done a good job with door to door wiring, even copper wired connections would have been giving us high speeds and reliable networks.

Wired connections are the future, with fibre being número uno.

oluamid: I use Aitel for BIS subscription. Yesterday, I wanted to download a movie of about 130MB, What did I do? I plugged my phone to a power source, started the download around 11PM and slept off. I woke up around 3am only to see that I only have 75MB downloaded. So I slept again and woke up around 7:30am to see the movie fully downloaded.

That's Naija 3G for you.

spoilerx: I use an unlocked at&t galaxy s4 with glo, and sometimes it shows 4G. I suspect they r already testing 4G networks

luluosas:
That's correct. This is where NITEL landlines would have come to the rescue but, corruption, lack of maintenance and mismanagement killed the once Nigerian pride in the telecoms industry. What a pity!

rman: The operating environment in Nigeria is not a s friendly as we all assume it is.
Most of these operators have not even rolled out 3G in all the major cities across Nigeria, so 4G LTE is still a couple of months away.
Although, some have already done preliminary tests for 4G LTE on sample sites in Nigeria.

The reason it is easy to roll out services in developed country is because there is a very good fibre network everywhere and that is the most reliable way of delivering high speed Internet.

Slowly but surely we will get there

dmcdad: Seeking for 4G/LTE (Long term evolution) now is like building castle in the air.We make use of devices that are capable of taking up speeds as high as 50-150mbps. I mean, devices like the iPhone 5, 5S, 5C, Samsung Galaxy S3, S4, HTC One just to mention a few, are capable of rendering speeds between 75 and 150mbps. The big question now is: on what netwrok are you gonna use that on to appreciate or rather maximise such functionality? Even our so-called 3.75G is trash compared to Edge some countries offer. Not to mention their 3G and the ultimate 4G/LTE.

It's really sad to see that after paying much for internet services, the speed we are being offered is nothing to write home about.

The day I was downloading something (Windows 8 ) and the download skyrocketed from around 300kbps to 2.5mbps, I nearly got mad because it was unbelievable. I felt my eyes were deceiving me and also thought I was dreaming, buh lo and behold, it was real.

Imagine Google is offering a download speed of 1Gbps with it's fibre optics. Although it's only covered a limited part of the US and moving from one town to another. Same thing with Japan. The last time I checked they were upgrading to a download speed of 1Gbps. Just imagine! Infact, we don't even have devices that will be able to contain such speed. Imagine you wanna download something of 1Gbyte and after clicking download, hoping to save the file on your desktop and before you get back to click ok you have the message that your download is complete. For someone like me, I will need to have a storage system that could be up to 1Petabyte.

But seriously, we need an ugrade asap so we too can enjoy good Internet connection. Our tel companies have to close the gap a bit cause it's getting wider and wider by the day. Even if it's making sure that our 3.75 is reliable, it would be great. Afterall, not everywhere in the US is 4G / LTE covered. We just need to perfect what we have first before asking for more. 3.75 in Nigeria is nothing but a joke.

dabraska: But I thought Smile Communications 4G LTE was killing every internet. The only problem is that they are in Ibadan for now. I was told that they would be in Lagos soon. I hope they continue with their speed. As an internet addict, their speed no be here o.

dmcdad:
Nope...That's because its the American version of the GS4. The 4G is like the 3G that shows up in most devices. Let me ask you; do you have an option to toggle between 2G/3G/4G?

dmcdad:
One thing worth noting is; will they be able to give their services to a large number of number and still offer such speeds?

dmcdad:
Nope...That's because its the American version of the GS4. The 4G is like the 3G that shows up in most devices. Let me ask you; do you have an option to toggle between 2G/3G/4G?

Jeffy1206: I guess so but seriusly I got speed close to dat with my MTN here in Abuja... Glo also is ok bt der speed is never stable disrupt when u are streamin... chai!!!! make I no even mention airtel cos dey are the...

oluamid: I use Aitel for BIS subscription. Yesterday, I wanted to download a movie of about 130MB, What did I do? I plugged my phone to a power source, started the download around 11PM and slept off. I woke up around 3am only to see that I only have 75MB downloaded. So I slept again and woke up around 7:30am to see the movie fully downloaded.

That's Naija 3G for you.

Osyxcel:

1hr.20min for 128mb? , that's not even up to 50kb/s, ar U sure it wasn't on EGDE?

I've downloaded 500mb in 25mins b/4.

The highest I've gotten is abt 800kb/s and it won't even stay there.
I've gotten stable 500kb/s and 600kb/s for some time.
It's mostly between 300kb/s and 400kb/s

luluosas:
Well, I don't know if I will be correct. What I think is that, it is the available network type at any given time that shows up on your network notification, not necessarily by toggling your device between network modes.
My reason for this stand is the experience I had when I travelled to Benin City last time. On my Samsung Galaxy Y Pro DUOS, I can only switch 3G on one Sim card at a time but, the Internet network signal that was displaying on my screen at intervals were Edge, 3G, H+ and GPRS on the same Sim card that was switched to 3G. This is why I believed it is the network type available at a time that shows up on your device.
Again, if you are in a 3G coverage area, why do you normally experience automatic fluctuations between network type on your device even without you toggling your device network type? I may be wrong though. Thank you.

spoilerx:



yep I have the option to select gsm only.

Btw sometimes it shows 3G or H /H+ & rarely E

runzlord: those YEYE-stick fantastic 4our network starting with the Most Terrible Network(emptyhen) i mean MTN then to glo, airtel and etisalat.

When will they offer quality cheap internet service in Nigeria?

spectra...gini i am just coming from their office, the offer 2mbps in the day time and 4mbps at night, they tried to persuade me that 2mbps would be ok for me, i then told them to run a speed test via speedtest.net on their computer and it came up with 0.21mbps, one tenth their promised speed, we tried it on other computers in their office the same thing, the told me maybe at home it would be better. please how can something that is not good in their office be good in my house. 4G LTE my foot
These network are 2 steps backward LTE, 4G then 3G and they are happy with it cos NCC is not bothering them. All NCC care about is call call call. Who calls again?

I really don't blame NCC it because the pple that manage it are all old men! So they prefer calling. Our internet networks are trying lyk swift 4G, mobitel 4G, unwired 4G. But these re internet networks that can only work with systems and via wifi hotspot.

Plus their modems aint mobile and expensive. Finally i thank God at least if we can get 4G-LTE in lagos only!

Thanks to spactranet, another internet network. See if our mobile networks cant do anything about their internet work.

Then i suggest they should stop supplying internet services and merge(or work hand in hand) with the internet networks to provide quality internet service.

runzlord: those YEYE-stick fantastic 4our network starting with the Most Terrible Network(emptyhen) i mean MTN then to glo, airtel and etisalat.

When will they offer quality cheap internet service in Nigeria?
These network are 2 steps backward LTE, 4G then 3G and they are happy with it cos NCC is not bothering them. All NCC care about is call call call. Who calls again?

I really don't blame NCC it because the pple that manage it are all old men! So they prefer calling. Our internet networks are trying lyk swift 4G, mobitel 4G, unwired 4G. But these re internet networks that can only work with systems and via wifi hotspot.

Plus their modems aint mobile and expensive. Finally i thank God at least if we can get 4G-LTE in lagos only!

Thanks to spactranet, another internet network. See if our mobile networks cant do anything about their internet work.

Then i suggest they should stop supplying internet services and merge(or work hand in hand) with the internet networks to provide quality internet service.

Donsammi: in niqeria?