samir101ng:

No, i don't work for MTN Nigeria. I was referring to people based in the Northern part of the country collectively. I am an avid internet user and always try out different service providers. MTN is currently the champion followed by Etisalat in the North.

puskin:

^^. . . . .what do they know!!!

samir101ng:

Nothing ! Na just copy and paste them sabi. Common updating of website them no sabi. Na just garbage in garbage out. Abi dem no fit hire webmaster. Na just now Starcomms dey update their site. You should check out them Zoom, Multilinks and others that have been stagnant for months.

OMG. . . . stagnant web pages for months. . . . .incredible!!!!!

samir101ng:

Hey Guys,

Etisalat is now the 1st GSM carrier to have an unlimited plan courtesy of Main One. Etisalat just launched a new plan called Easynet Time http://www.etisalat.com.ng/easynet.php. You can use it with your regular Etisalat prepaid SIM card or the Easynet data-only SIM card and Modem. Right now, i have subsrcibed to the N5000 Nighttime and Weekend Plan. I downloaded over 800MB on my first night. Etisalat is using an EDGE network but sometimes the speed rushes to 120 KB/S. I get an average of 29-35 KB/S using Internet Download Manager. Utorrent also works flawlessly with all ports opened. God bless Main One Cable Company as we are now reaping the rewards on the Etisalat Network.

Main One Cable: Hope of Cheap Telecom Services Dashed

Mike van den Berg, chief executive officer of Gateway Communications, said there is not enough business on the continent to support these cables, despite expectations that it would aid the provision of cheap internet services in the country.
According to Dr Hamadoun Touré, International Telecom Union’s (ITU) secretary general, the relation between cable connections and end-user price is not always straightforward. While competition usually drives down international prices for bandwidth, national bandwidth prices continue to remain high, usually due to a limited number of providers in the domestic market.

Mohamed Jameel, the Chief Operating Officer of Globacom told journalists last week after a meeting of operators and the Nigerian Communications Commission that Glo-1 had just finished undergoing some testing work.

"The Glo-1 submarine cable has been undergoing some testing work, which we just concluded. We would be due to begin operations in four weeks time or before the end of August 2010," Mr. Jameel said.

http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/Money/Business/5592225-147/infrastructure_challenges_limit_internet_service_.csp

goggs:


Counting down oh. 7 more days before the end of August oh. Mr Jameel has been dribbling us since 2008. He must be the Maradona of Telecoms in Nigeria. My fingers are crossed

When this glo 1 thing commences, I am very sure Glo will make so much noise. Looking forward to it.

I read an article in Punch about internet service and it talked about Main-one and Glo-1 and said it (glo) was coming in September.

goggs:

update read in the punch of today that globacom indicated that glo 1 will commence service on September 1. In the same article Mr Jameel was stated to have said sometime in September. Well it looks like it will be the end of the year.

update read in the punch of today that globacom indicated that glo 1 will commence service on September 1. In the same article Mr Jameel was stated to have said sometime in September. Well it looks like it will be the end of the year.

tomcat:

this thread is about Glo-1 submarine cable, and not glo 3g or any other ones,

however please note 2 things:

1. the 3g is not connected to the glo-1 as your ping [/b]clearly shows

2. [b]In wireless connections like 3g or wimax, speedtest.net rarely shows the real speed of your connection.

as far as i know glo-1 will be connected around September as they all expect, and that means that it will be the main backbone for the 3g, broadaccess, voice etc,

flyuche:

pls let us know where the 3G is connected if you know better.
speedtest.net is used and recognised worldwide. when pcmag or pcworld magazines conducted the average download speeds of wireless networks in the USA, they used speedtest.net.

flyuche:

glo used a vsat provider based in cyprus to carry it's 3G internet traffic. not anymore. according to press release, glo 1 commercial launch is eminent. does it not make sense that by now the submarine cable is being tested? glo 3G plus download speed has improved tremendously from a mere 2-5kB/s to beyond 100kB/s.