Some MTN Nigeria subscribers may find themselves surprised with slower data speeds. As of today, MTN is introducing new measures that will manage usage speeds for its BIS users that "regularly download and stream large amounts of content outside of MTN’s fair usage policies,". MTN says the actions are necessary because, those users are impacting MTN's network capacity.

This is not the first time a carrier has regulated BIS traffic for their subscribers. A few months ago Vodacom implemented similar measures, by moving its BlackBerry users to a new system that would prevent users from abusing its BIS services. SA carriers are concerned about BlackBerry users abusing their fair usage policy, and are taking steps to stop it.

Vodacom reported that one user managed to download over 332GB of data in just one month. Now that's a far cry from the average users data usage per month, but carriers like MTN and Vodacom are seeing increased data usage from BlackBerry power users and are taking steps to control it.

Bandwidth throttling is nothing new among ISP's, but is fairly new for mobile carriers. With more carriers implementing bandwidth throttling one has to wonder if their carrier is next.

kevoh: Wait oh ! Is it the 1.5Gb data or so they give us for BIS and stylishly call it unlimited that they still want to reduce the soped? #smh

kels on point: I said it, dats the only thing making blackberry important in Nigeria.once dey limit ur data usage everybody will eventually switch over to Android or iPhones

booqee: can someone pls speak english..wat are they saying??

kels on point: I said it, dats the only thing making blackberry important in Nigeria.once dey limit ur data usage everybody will eventually switch over to Android or iPhones

Vodacom reported that one user managed to
download over 332GB of data in just one month.

uihebom: 330GB !!!So I've been falling hands since, I only make use of 700mb a month and I thought its too much. Well I was planing of making use of dis vpn dis week. Someone told me Mtn can't stop it. So pd-proxy and sandwich, which is beta in terms of speed.

Youngzedd:

What they are trying to say is that, those ladies requesting bb bold 5 from their bf should stop it otherwise the speed of flexing will reduce, the cost will increase and there will be no more BBM.

Hope u now understand.


You think say na latin be this.
Anyway todays mass was conducted in latin, so chill.

Chrisfab: MTN=Manage This Network Everywhere You Go
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