The promise to Nigerians when the two submarine cables were being laid was that the speed of the Internet would increase tremendously. Now the two international cables are up and running, internet is still crawling in this country. The so called broadband I use is sometimes so slow that it takes eternity to upload a 1meg. And even the dongle I bought from an operator that claimed to have linked up with Mainone is nothing to write home about. I expected better results than this. What is happening? Or are people having better experience with the Internet elsewhere in this country?

Me sef I tire o!! But seriously, the internet can only be as fast as it's weakest link. I recall reading about At&T who had a reputation for poor service on their iPhone service in Manhattan (New York) and I read that they had to acually upgrade every base station on the island to improve the service. SO what I'm saying is depite the fact that there is Glo1 and Main1, the telco's will actually have to go and upgrade individual base stations to enable them transmit and receive data at faster speeds.

All said and done though, MTN really seems to be the better network. But both of them can be very good and fast if you are lucky enough to stay close to a base station that may have been upgraded. For eg I have experienced and seen comments on NL alluding to the fact that Glo is very, very fast in Lekki. that is obviously for 2 reasons. First of all the high and mighty who can afford the most expensive bundles live there and their Glo 1 landing station is also in Lekki, so it would have made sense to upgrade the base stations around there first.