Please tell me what the cafe prices are. Thanks in advance:
- How do they charge people for cafe usage? Hourly? daily?

- Do they charge extra to print and scan documents? How much?

- Do they charge extra for anything else?

I'm not familiar with Nigerian currency. Would those prices be considered expensive or cheap?

On the average

surfing - 100naira per hr

scanning - 20naira / pg

Some charge u extra to use the webcam.


its expensive owning to the fact that u can stay online for a whol;e month (24hrs daily) in the USA 4 just $20 - 2800naira

layi, prices are different cos when i went to Gboko in Benue state to use the internet, the charges there are unbelieveablel;

1hr = 150 naira which is = $1 and some cents
30 mins=100 naira
15 mins= 50 naira

scaning = 100 naira a page
printing = 20 naira a page

thats so costly!

after all this charges, you still pay 50 naira if u want to use a webcam,
too bad

just because internet access is cheaper doesn't mean we don't pay alot to use it in a cyber cafe, most cyber cafes cost around $5 (N500) an hour but usually there also a network games cafe as well. :-)

we charge N200 for 200 minutes, N100 for 60 mins, N50 for 20 mins and N20 for a page of printout in the cyber cafe where i work.

layi, prices are different because when i went to Gboko in Benue state to use the internet, the charges there are unbelieveablel;

1hr = 150 naira which is = $1 and some cents
30 mins=100 naira
15 mins= 50 naira

scaning = 100 naira a page
printing = 20 naira a page

thats so costly!

after all this charges, you still pay 50 naira if u want to use a webcam,
too bad

On the average

surfing - 100naira per hr

scanning - 20naira / pg

Some charge u extra to use the webcam.


its expensive owning to the fact that u can stay online for a whol;e month (24hrs daily) in the USA 4 just $20 - 2800naira

Compared to USA, Canada, and other developed countries Internet Cafe prices here are the cheapest. I think the most common tarrif for cafes in the US is around $5 per hour (www.igames.org).

When you consider the amount operators are paying for access (about $800) per month for 128/64 kbps you will know that cybercafes are not ripping anybody off.

I don't even pay for my internet access. I live in an area choke full of signals.....................my wireless card picks up several strong signals every time. I have been doing that for like a year now.

@omogenikky...dat wat we call mobile bankruptcy....

omogenikky:

I don't even pay for my internet access. I live in an area choke full of signals.....................my wireless card picks up several strong signals every time. I have been doing that for like a year now.

omogenikky, you b true nigerian to the core !

Jumoke just spoke my mind.

In East for now like Onitsha
it's

#300-5 hrs
#150-2hrs
#100-80mins
#80-60mins
#50-30mins
#20-10mins

LAGOS is more expensive.

Right now i feel the charges of cafes are quite low considering the overheads incurred, but due to the kind of market forces (competition) and non unified cafes we have in Nigeria prices are low.
when u consider bandwidth charges of $1,080 and lubricant/fuel expense of 100k , salaries, sundry expenses one wonders how we cafe stay afloat. i normally say we are in business to keep foreign service providers afloat and keep the internet going.

its not really expensive cos over here i think is usually 50p-£1 per hour free use of webcam...
coping is cheap 5p...u can compare da price directly with foreign countries ...it very cheap here but hey every1 has internet access at home.....

if i go to nigeria i wont mind payin that much for a reliable service n fast 1 at that.....24hr electricity generator or no generator (quite ones)

remember the LOADING.......................... Loading..............LOADING.......loading days ..Thank God for internet broadband...the world is a smaller place

Prices at my Internet Cafe located in Lagos
(http://www.antamedia.com/gallery/cafepointe/index.htm)

10 minutes - N30
30 minutes - N60
1 hour - N100
4 hours (bulk purchase) - N300
Use of webcams - FREE (I have 23 webcams stations)
Printing-  N20/page (B/W), N50/page (Color documents)
Scanning - N100/page
International calls to USA, Canada and UK (land) - N10/minute

These are great prices considering our huge running cost:
$1,500 per month for bandwidth subcription (about N217,000/mo)
$600 for power generator fuel,
Salaries for 8 staff,
Rent
Equipment maintainance.
It's no surprise that many cafes have gone out of business.

I'm still surprised at the fact that printing cost 20# while scanning go for as high as #100 per page. There's no ink or paper involved and its not that the scanner is way more expensive that d printer.
Can some1 tell me what i dont know? Why is it that expensive to scan?

For us, it's the time and effort involved. Printing from a workstation takes less than a minute. All scanned jobs we do have to be taken to Photoshop and cropped in most cases. Then we have to optimize for email or for print. Finally, we have to send via email to the customer's box. The cost of sending via email is included in the N100.

Yours is understandable but seriously i'm yet to see any cafe that charge less. maybe they all do the same thing

I am surprised you have such a beautiful cafe (Cafepointe)in the heart of Egbeda. I saw d pics. Where are the CPUs? Inside the wooden frames or connected to a central server?

Thanks for your comments on Cafepointe. The CPUs are right under the wooden frame as shown in some the pictures here: (http://www.antamedia.com/gallery/cafepointe/index.htm)

Ok. I see them now. How much did u get those flat VDUs?

How much would it cost to set up a replica of cafepointe plzzzzz?

if ur cost is that high lets say about $4000 a month how much do u make or if u dnt wanna disclose it...are u makin profit?? or r just injectin more into it to keep it going

Yes, I am making profits, although some months, I break even with a little extra change to spare. Average running costs per month for me is about $5000. I can be reached at gabriel@tegacreative.com for more detailed or personal questions.

@Glessor big ups to ur internet cafe!!
Do u use GAIM Messenger at ur cafe?, its a chat client that enables the user to chat with contacts from Hotmail, Yahoo, Google Talk, AOL, AIM, Jabber, Gadu Gadu and many other networks at the SAME time using the SAME software.

Cafe business presently in Nigeria is not as profitable as it used to be. A lot of cafe are dying. no thanks to the high cost of doing business in Nigeria. Glessor is really a good concept. I appreciate the organisation there...

lol haven't u guys heard about "FREE BROWSING" by the way!>

Vivian, thanks for the compliments. I got your email and have already sent you my telephone number. I will be glad to share with you what has worked for me and what hasn't. Nigeria is a tough environment for our business. NEPA and the high cost of bandwidth has not helped in any way. Good luck to you in 2006.

With the 1$ billion a week that Nigeria is making from oil alone, why are businesses like cyber cafes being taxed to the hilt?

I've heard many on this forum say that N100 an hour is not expensive.  Well, maybe to a person that lives outside of Nigeria.  But for someone who lives and earns his living in Nigeria, that is definitely a lot of money.  I have permanent high speed Internet connection at my home, and it only costs me $29 a month.  Dial up Internet access is basically a thing of the past now in the US, but a dial up account typically costs about $5 a month for unlimited use. 

Many cities are now implementing free city-wide wireless access.  Basically, you throw a wireless card into your computer, and you get a signal wherever you may be in the city.

To say Nigeria is crippled by its own government is an understatement.

Look at India.  Companies in most developed nations today are outsourcing their web programming needs to India.  Revenues to Indians last year was about $18b and expected to exceed $20 billion in 2006.  Why aren't Nigerians sharing in that windfall?  We have the brains rotting out there in Nigeria. It's because Nigerians can't get online without paying an arm and a leg.  Basically, to be a good web programmer, you have to have 24/7 access to the Internet - a pipe dream for Nigerians at this point.

If Nigerians could get online at a reasonable cost, people could sell all kinds of stuff on ebay, such as African crafts.  And fewer people would see the need for 419 fraud.

Sorry to digress from the main topic, but I had to vent a little.

Oasis you don't live here so you don't know what's obtainable here, i think you have been brainwashed alot by the western media less than a dollar a day hype. N100 is not expensive at all.

You said you are getting broadband in your house for $29 a month but cafe operators pay $800-$1000 a month for a not so broadband service from ISPs. I have not talk about fuel cost for generators, paying staffs, servicing equipmenst and stuffs.

Know how to vent off.

Oasis you don't live here so you don't know what's obtainable here

Yes I don't live there. But I do have analytical skills, and capable of critical thinking.

i think you have been brainwashed alot by the western media less than a dollar a day hype.

A dollar a day is not hype, it's fact. And that is high speed Internet. Dial up is only about $5/month with unlimited use.

N100 is not expensive at all.

You said you are getting broadband in your house for $29 a month but cafe operators pay $800-$1000 a month for a not so broadband service from ISPs. I have not talk about fuel cost for generators, paying staffs, servicing equipmenst and stuffs.

Know how to vent off.

Actually, N100 an hour is expensive.
What percentage of an average earner's salary is N100, and how many hours a month is he online as a result of the cost?
That is what makes it expensive.

Basically, people should be able to logon daily to check their email and send replies without worrying about time running out on them.

cafe operators pay $800-$1000 a month for a not so broadband service from ISPs. I have not talk about fuel cost for generators, paying staffs, servicing equipmenst and stuffs.

I quite agreed with you. The issue is not why you're charging N100 an hour. The price is quite justifiable, considering your expenses.

But, my point is that N100 an hour for Internet access is exorbitant for an average user.

Have you thought about web application programmers? Sometimes I need to be online 12+ hours a day. Can I do that in Nigeria? Not likely. Why? Because it'd get really expensive pretty quickly.

So, as a programmer in Nigeria, I can't compete on the global scene, because I can't afford the cost of Internet access.
That is what makes N100 an hour very expensive.

Let me repeat that I'm not blaming the cafe operators for charging N100 an hour. Rather I'm basing it on the fact that Nigerians are missing out on all the fun, because they can't afford to stay online for too long.

It's good that you have clarified what you mean by "expensive". I hope if the FG can open up the SAT-3 access to the public people will be able to have access to fat pipes that can later be shared to smaller ISPs and onward delivery to users will go through wireless access.

Until we can have other option except VSAT agerage Nigerian will continue to groan under the high bandwidth cost.

I said that there is availability of free browsing.!

I said that there is availability of free browsing.!

Will you please tell us what to do to partake in that offer.