I bought a smile modem December 2014 and was indeed enjoying superfast speeds as promised. In those early days, my download speeds on speedtest were as high as 12Mbps.

Fastforward to as recently as 2/3 months ago and the speeds have crawled to as slow as 1.5 Mbps on average. On a good day I might get 2.5Mbps and on poor days it doesn't even get to 1Mbps.

I think it's really unfair for them to be marketing a service as super fast 4G Lte when I get faster speeds on Etisalat which is a 3.75G network. I get as high as 5Mbps on average with Etisalat.

NCC really should Wade into this as its getting really frustrating. I wish Spectranet or NTel would launch soonest in Port Harcourt as I will almost certainly switch.

I thought the thread title says grinds to a halt? How come it is still working?

I believe it's called figure of speech....

COMPAQ:
I bought a smile modem December 2014 and was indeed enjoying superfast speeds as promised. In those early days, my download speeds on speedtest were as high as 12Mbps.

Fastforward to as recently as 2/3 months ago and the speeds have crawled to as slow as 1.5 Mbps on average. On a good day I might get 2.5Mbps and on poor days it doesn't even get to 1Mbps.

I think it's really unfair for them to be marketing a service as super fast 4G Lte when I get faster speeds on Etisalat which is a 3.75G network. I get as high as 5Mbps on average with Etisalat.

NCC really should Wade into this as its getting really frustrating. I wish Spectranet or NTel would launch soonest in Port Harcourt as I will almost certainly switch.

that's why we have alternatives. So when you switch to another plan, they sit up. You're right about their advertisement and all the operators are guilty of it especially false advert

Nigerians and suffering and smiling. So 12MB/s (Technically still HSPA, ie 3.5G) is super fast?

COMPAQ:
I believe it's called figure of speech....

Maybe you need to look up the meaning of figure of speech then come back and explain how it relates to your thread title.