I heard from a very reliable source.

They complained that the new 4G LTE rolled out by the GSM operators data prices are too cheap and may put them out of business.

I will do away with my Smile modem once my current subscription is depleted.

I was enjoying the 4G on Airtel until my phone screen broke completely and made me resume using Smile.

Internet should be cheap and made almost free. Just for leaving my PC on for a day, it consumes about 2GB. So why should they try to choke us with it?

SouthWestBlood:
I heard from a very reliable source.

They complained that the new 4G LTE rolled out by the GSM operators data prices are too cheap and may put them out of business.

I will do away with my Smile modem once my current subcription is depleted.

I was enjoy the 4G on Airtel not until my phone screen broke completely and made me resume using Smile.

Internet should be cheap and made almost free. Just for leaving my PC on for a day, it consumes about 2GB. So why should they try to choke us with it?

Thanks for posting.

That those two start-ups cried to the NCC was not a surprise. What's very surprising — indeed unfortunate — is that the NCC was so gullible as to attempt to put so much new, additional, and unwarranted revenue, yanked from ordinary Nigerians, into the hands of the leading data providers, supposedly in order to protect the start-ups! Meanwhile, the NCC cannot, in all conscience, vouch for the business acumen, ethics or practices of the supposed start-ups, neither are the big players and consumers complaining.

Another thing: Even within the big players, GLO's data rates are roughly one-third of MTN's, for example. So, why would the NCC want to tie GLO's hands and allow MTN to run away with more of the market share it (MTN) doesn't already control? For God's sake, an ISP should be allowed to compete as ethically as possible with the strategies and resources it has, as long as lawful taxes are paid as and when due.

Members of the current board of the NCC need to receive some common sense, especially when combined with economic sense, please.

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Pity

Their cup don full for trying to suffer Nigerians the more.

You can add ntel to the list

The telecommunication companies are definitely behind the proposed price hike, not the NCC. The NCC is just being used because they have received huge bribe package.

You'll expect the EFCC and DSS to uncover how much bribe exchanged hands, but they're buzy working for politicians.

if you can't break even/make profit, close up! if you can't stand the heat, leave the kitchen.

adonbilivit:
if you can't break even/make profit, close up! if you can't stand heat, leave the kitchen.

Well said.

Like some one said elsewhere, it's taken the major data providers — and indeed consumers — years of perseverance and investments in the system, for them to get to and operate at the level they're now at. You can't just tie their hands behind their backs, just to allow some dark horses, whose futures you can't predict, to "catch up."

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NCC is protecting those two start up interest whereas they should be protecting the interest of the masses

I don't think so.. I think d NCC is simply making flimsy excuses and using Smile and Spectranet for dat. This is because we all know these 2 ntwrks still don't have a nationwide coverage yet and are only operating in major cities and again they offer considerable data discounts and incentives on data compared to what these our usual ntwrks offer.. Dis same NCC initially denied before coming up with hopeless excuses. This is solely d handwork of d NCC on behalf of the govt but what dey didn't anticipate was the response from the public...

musicwriter:
The telecommunication companies are definitely behind the proposed price hike, not the NCC. The NCC is just being used because they have received huge bribe package.

You'll expect the EFCC and DSS to uncover how much bribe exchanged hands, but they're buzy working for politicians.

Then why make data cheap just to increase it again

The way spectranet lady calls me almost crying asking me when will I resubscribe forced me to stop picking their calls. It makes no sense. For N2500 Glo gives me 10 gig of data that I can use nationwide. Why should I pay N3500 for 5gig that I can only use in certain places.

gmaribel:
The way spectranet lady calls me almost crying asking me when will I resubscribe forced me to stop picking their calls. It makes no sense. For N2500 Glo gives me 10 gig of data that I can use nationwide. Why should I pay N3500 for 5gig that I can only use in certain places.

weyrey lon shey won

SouthWestBlood:
I heard from a very reliable source.

They complained that the new 4G LTE rolled out by the GSM operators data prices are too cheap and may put them out of business.

I will do away with my Smile modem once my current subscription is depleted.

I was enjoying the 4G on Airtel until my phone screen broke completely and made me resume using Smile.

Internet should be cheap and made almost free. Just for leaving my PC on for a day, it consumes about 2GB. So why should they try to choke us with it?

I disagree with you on the bolded words. I have been using smile since December last year and I normally spends an average of 12 hours on the net and it has been average of 250mb daily, except on occasion where I have to download a lot of things. But I agree that they are still on the high side in terms of charges on data.

kolaish:
I disagree with you on the bolded words. I have been using smile since December last year and I normally spends an average of 12 hours on the net and it has been average of 250mb daily, except on occasion where I have to download a lot of things. But I agree that they are still on the high side in terms of charges on data.

smile is probably the fastest network so spending 2gig in an hour is possible trust me....you probably limited your speed

kiddie:

smile is probably the fastest network so spending 2gig in an hour is possible trust me....you probably limited your speed

Though I am not disputing with you but since I have been using it, I have not limited my data usage. On the other hand, you may be right because there was a time in December that I discovered that about 500mb just went off my data in a single day. But for the whole of this year my data usage have been consistent.

And I am wondering how much they paid to NCC for the evil job

kolaish:
I disagree with you on the bolded words. I have been using smile since December last year and I normally spends an average of 12 hours on the net and it has been average of 250mb daily, except on occasion where I have to download a lot of things. But I agree that they are still on the high side in terms of charges on data.

That's for your own PC. Recently, I reloaded my PC because I thought there were some sort of Malwares or Viruses eating up the data, and also made me install GlassWire to monitor my data usage.

The screen shot below is just for this morning, without downloading or streaming. What will it be by the end of the day?

SouthWestBlood:


That's for your own PC. Recently, I reloaded my PC because I thought there were some sort of Malwares or Viruses eating up the data, and also made me install GlassWire to monitor my data usage.

The screen shot below is just for this morning, without downloading or streaming. What will it be by the end of the day?

I will advice you visit one of the smile agents nearer to your location to lay a complain, it is rather absurd. My neighbour in our office complex also uses smile and his data usage is okay as well. I am on smile 10Gb (N9,000) and I hardly finished it in a month despite the fact that my wife still use it to browse on her phone when I am at home and on weekend.

romeoetin:



Then why make data cheap just to increase it again

That's a good question!.

How I wish you understood what's going on, cause if you do you would've answered this question yourself.

Do not be fooled!!. It is the telecommunication companies that increased pricing and disguised as if its not them.

This is how and why......................

You have to understand data price plunged across all the networks due to competetion, and it was even heading to free data offers, if they didn't do something about it. If the telcos didn't come up with this elaborate plan, data prices would've crashed to the point some networks would've started offering free internet by Christmas. The telcos must have held secrete meetings where they warned each other that if the principles of free-market is allowed to continue, the data competetion would force them to begin offering free internet to Nigerians. So, they simply made a U-turn to suffocate free-market.

Believe it or not, this happened because the telcos do not want data prices to be anymore cheaper than it is now. The big 4 (MTN, GLO, Airtel, Etisalat) are panicing that if the "data wars" continue it would lead them to begin offering free data soon, while the small players (Spectranet, Smile, NTel) are panicing because competition will force them out of business. They therefore held a meeting to protect themselves, but the NCC must come in as the industry referee to guaranty the deal by making it official.

And this is why Noam Chomsky argues that capitalism is anti-people and that there's really nothing like free-market, because what he calls "the principal architects of policy" (in this case the telecommunication companies) control governments, and therefore, always lobby a goverment to create favourable policies for them all the time. That's exactly what's going on here.

kolaish:
I will advice you visit one of the smile agents nearer to your location to lay a complain, it is rather absurd. My neighbour in our office complex also uses smile and his data usage is okay as well. I am on smile 10Gb (N9,000) and I hardly finished it in a month despite the fact that my wife still use it to browse on her phone when I am at home and on weekend.

Ok, thanks.

Just in case you didn't know. There is a plan for 15GB (10,000). Just a thousand naira difference.

musicwriter:
The telecommunication companies are definitely behind the proposed price hike, not the NCC. The NCC is just being used because they have received huge bribe package.

You'll expect the EFCC and DSS to uncover how much bribe exchanged hands, but they're buzy working for politicians.

God help us

SouthWestBlood:
I heard from a very reliable source.

They complained that the new 4G LTE rolled out by the GSM operators data prices are too cheap and may put them out of business.

I will do away with my Smile modem once my current subscription is depleted.

I was enjoying the 4G on Airtel until my phone screen broke completely and made me resume using Smile.

Internet should be cheap and made almost free. Just for leaving my PC on for a day, it consumes about 2GB. So why should they try to choke us with it?

Please be informed that your very Reliable source is actually very unreliable.

All these conspiracy theory is very unfair to these small operators, Nigerians live on rumor and we are too lazy to do basic checks.

Dont understanding what is going on here sef. I am on Smile Unlimited @ 19,800 per month, it doesnt cut off at all. So, is there any need for me to start calculating data usage ? Doesnt make sense.

What I think NCC should do is compel all ISPs, all of them, both small and big to offer unlimited monthly plans. Let the price wars be centered on unlimited monthly plan, while customer decide which ISP to subscribe to based on Speed of Streaming and Price margin for the unlimited plans. That is how it works in real countries with real legislation.

kolaish:
I will advice you visit one of the smile agents nearer to your location to lay a complain, it is rather absurd. My neighbour in our office complex also uses smile and his data usage is okay as well. I am on smile 10Gb (N9,000) and I hardly finished it in a month despite the fact that my wife still use it to browse on her phone when I am at home and on weekend.

what are you saying....smile triples your data

kiddie:

smile is probably the fastest network so spending 2gig in an hour is possible trust me....you probably limited your speed

What's the highest speed you have achieved on IDM using Smile?

dustmalik:

What's the highest speed you have achieved on IDM using Smile?

uc browser upto 3mb-4mb

kiddie:

uc browser upto 3mb-4mb

Well, i wouldn't call that the fastest network. I do get up to 10MB/s on mtn 4G LTE.

May Great One of KiVuKi Land Guwarad them forever to Oblivious Extinction just as it's been done to Our ancient Barawos

Gyar Gyarbon bonKa

kiddie:

what are you saying....smile triples your data

Will I be lying and for what reason? I am an online trader, so I am always on the net.

dustmalik:

Well, i wouldn't call that the fastest network. I do get up to 10MB/s on mtn 4G LTE.

Are you using mtn or glo 4G LTE?

dustmalik:

Well, i wouldn't call that the fastest network. I do get up to 10MB/s on mtn 4G LTE.

U can't get such on MTN 4G LTE. GLO 4G LTE been the fastest becos of the band frequency peaks at 7.5MB/s while MTN peaks at 5MB/s