speedyboi:
That's because mtn is for the rich nd big people in the society not jobless nairalanders. Those that use mtn don't have time for comments. Samething applies to Dstv..... Please Guys don't take my contribution hard on yourselfs...its just the truth

speedyboi:
That's because mtn is for the rich nd big people in the society not jobless nairalanders. Those that use mtn don't have time for comments. Samething applies to Dstv..... Please Guys don't take my contribution hard on yourselfs...its just the truth

new maonza: 4 ur mind u r rich using mtn and using DSTV. . .

Kunle-A:
[size=14pt]MTN Simple Surf: My story[/size]

[b]I live in California and was in Nigeria last year for about 9 months on business trip. Left in December and came back in March this year. I am saying that to let you know that i have something to compare Nigeria network to.

I revolve between ibadan (Oyo) Lagos and Ijebu Ode (Ogun State). My business depends mostly on the internet stuff. i buy and bid (live) for cars online.

So data cap and speed is very crucial to me. I have tried mostly all available networks: Glo, Multilinks, Etisalat, Starcomms, etc.

Different ones are good in different areas. Multilinks is better (then) in Ogun. Starcomms in Lagos/ibadan and Etisalat.

The issue i have with Etisalat when i came back this March is the data limit. i went thru 250mb (N1,000) in few hrs nightly.

I tried the Simple surf and its has been great in ALL my areas. Ogun, Oyo and Lagos.

I have even watched video online and make calls to the US over the net (especially late at night) from my flat in Ibadan. If there is a problem or a cap on the simple surf, i am yet to see it. There have been slow connections sometimes and just yesterday, the connection kept logging off everytime i log on. i just took out my multilinks modem and finish the job. Hours later, its fine

i can only call it like i see it. i have no loyalty to any network but the one that's good to me.

By the way, i use glo for all my calls cos they charge N9/min to call the US. MTN charges a LOT.

Criticism should be based on PERSONAL experience.

Thanks[/b]

gentlegg: MTN IS A PURE FRAUD. I SAW THE ADVERT OF THE HOURLY SIMPLE SURF LAST WEEK AND IMMEDIATELY I SUBSCRIBED TO 300HRS - N13,000 FOR 3 MONTHS, HOPING TO ENJOY THE UNLIMITED DATA USAGE, PROBABLY A LOT OF ONLINE VIDEO STREAMING I'VE BEEN WISHING FOR. TO MY CHAGRIN THAT SIMPLE SURF IS NOT THE SAME SPEED WITH DATA BUNDLES. INITIALLY I THOUGHT IT'S FROM MY SYSTEM, BUT WHEN I PUT BACK MY GLO REMAINING PACKAGE, THE THING BROWSE AS FAST AS USUAL, THEN MY SIMPLE SURF AGAIN, AS SLOW AS A SNAIL. TO EVEN BROWSE IS QUITE SLOW LET ALONE VIDEO STREAMING OR DOWNLOAD(THE HIGHEST DOWNLOAD I'VE GOT IS 15KBPS. STILL TRYING TO CONFIRM WHAT'S HAPPENING, I SUBSCRIBED TO N100 - 10MB MTN BUNDLE, THE FEW MINUTES IT LASTED ON MY SYSTEM IT WAS AS FAST AS NORMAL MTN 3G DATA BUNDLES AND TRIED DOWNLOADING, THE LEAST I GOT IS 65KBPS BEFORE IT'S EXHAUSTED, SO I CONFIRMED THAT MTN PROGRAMMED THE SIMPLE SURF TO A DIFFERENT INTERNET BASE THAT IS SLOW AS ORDINARY DIAL UP, AND DON'T EVEN THINK OF ANYTHING VIDEO STREAMING.
RIGHT NOW AM REGRETTING THE 13K, INFACT THIS AFTERNOON I CALLED A FRIEND BEGGING HIM TO PAY ME ANY AMOUNT AND TAKE THIS SIMPLE SURF SO I CAN SUBSCRIBE BACK TO MY GLO, BUT THE GUY REFUSED. AND MTN NEVER ADVERTISED THAT THE SO CALLED UNLIMITED DATA SIMPLE SURF HAS A DIFFERENT SPEED OF INTERNET. PURE 419.

rman: Apparaently, everyone hates MTN in Nigeria but the realty on ground is they are the market leader and are still growing. In fact they added more than a million subscribers last year which is second only to Etisalat. Everytime I see threads about MTN and DSTV on nairaland, it is all hate, hate and hate from forum members. Unless nairaland is not a partial reflection of the Nigerian reality, and if it is, WHO ARE THOSE ON MTN NIGERIA'S NETWORK?

nadrah: First I think some people on here need to understand the difference between "speed" and "data". I'm yet to find a Nigerian complaining that he was duped out of unlimited speed. But data and hours, yes. Second,if a company says it is giving unlimited data, knowing that people will rely on that information and buy that company, then that company needs to cough up the unlimited data because thhats what they are offering. Otherwise, it's false advertising.

If I buy something that company X tells me does A. I expect it to do A after I buy it. You can't come and tell me it's crazy for me to expect it to do A. If I call Company X to complain and they tell me it's actually built to do B, then that's false advertising. Company X just tricked me into buying its product.

Moral of the story. Do as I do and buy internet plans from different providers--depending on who is actually the best at the time. They all offer internet services at roughly the same price. Here's what I did. I moved back to the States and everyone told me MTN was the shit! So I listened and I boughht MTN sim and internet stick. Turned out MTN internet was more like the SHIT as poop, stupid, rubbish. It only worked from 3am-6am. So, I saw visafone was offering free usb modems when you buy a plan, I signed on to their hourly plan. 3 months later, visafone took away their hourly plans and had monthhly limited plans. I was sad but figured since their connection was good and they didn't change the speed...no problem! I was wrong! BIG problem in little China! During my second month and still hoping it was just a glitch, my sister told me her etisalat usb modem was incredible and I tried. Ho Ho! That damn internet was fast! I noticed they were also doing the same free modem with a plan thing, so once visafone month ran out (since I could never finish the 3GB for the month because the damn thing never connected), I went to etisalat and got a usb modem. All was well, till they ended their promo. One thing I noticed throughout my experiments with these 3 companies, my other sister has been using a starcomms usb modem and never complained. Finally, I tried it and I was convinced. So, it's been 3weeks since I got starcomms (they have a promo that has been on for a looong time--8k for modem and 100hrs per month). It's okay. The speed is not phew fast, but it average and consistent! I hope it works! But if it doesn't work and this is the genius of it all! I have 4 usb modems and monthly cost for all 4 are roughly the same (6,500-7,500) so if one acts up, I can easily go a better company and reload.

Until we have better connection plans in Nigeria...this is my strategy.

TCD: Nobody should waste his or her time subscribing for this simple surf. There is no data limit but there is a speed limit, at least I know for the 250naira, 2hour plan. U can't go past 124kbps that's like highest 15KB/s. Most times revolves around 8KB/s which is totally useless. This is plain theft and false advertising, they should have indicated this . Pls don't fall victim to this scam.

unphilaz: think i will continue wit etisalat, might check back to see people's opinion of it

gentlegg: MTN IS A PURE FRAUD. I SAW THE ADVERT OF THE HOURLY SIMPLE SURF LAST WEEK AND IMMEDIATELY I SUBSCRIBED TO 300HRS - N13,000 FOR 3 MONTHS, HOPING TO ENJOY THE UNLIMITED DATA USAGE, PROBABLY A LOT OF ONLINE VIDEO STREAMING I'VE BEEN WISHING FOR. TO MY CHAGRIN THAT SIMPLE SURF IS NOT THE SAME SPEED WITH DATA BUNDLES. INITIALLY I THOUGHT IT'S FROM MY SYSTEM, BUT WHEN I PUT BACK MY GLO REMAINING PACKAGE, THE THING BROWSE AS FAST AS USUAL, THEN MY SIMPLE SURF AGAIN, AS SLOW AS A SNAIL. TO EVEN BROWSE IS QUITE SLOW LET ALONE VIDEO STREAMING OR DOWNLOAD(THE HIGHEST DOWNLOAD I'VE GOT IS 15KBPS. STILL TRYING TO CONFIRM WHAT'S HAPPENING, I SUBSCRIBED TO N100 - 10MB MTN BUNDLE, THE FEW MINUTES IT LASTED ON MY SYSTEM IT WAS AS FAST AS NORMAL MTN 3G DATA BUNDLES AND TRIED DOWNLOADING, THE LEAST I GOT IS 65KBPS BEFORE IT'S EXHAUSTED, SO I CONFIRMED THAT MTN PROGRAMMED THE SIMPLE SURF TO A DIFFERENT INTERNET BASE THAT IS SLOW AS ORDINARY DIAL UP, AND DON'T EVEN THINK OF ANYTHING VIDEO STREAMING.
RIGHT NOW AM REGRETTING THE 13K, INFACT THIS AFTERNOON I CALLED A FRIEND BEGGING HIM TO PAY ME ANY AMOUNT AND TAKE THIS SIMPLE SURF SO I CAN SUBSCRIBE BACK TO MY GLO, BUT THE GUY REFUSED. AND MTN NEVER ADVERTISED THAT THE SO CALLED UNLIMITED DATA SIMPLE SURF HAS A DIFFERENT SPEED OF INTERNET. PURE 419.

Docjay487: i've learnt from this mistake!

kdecifer:

I have actually in the past been mad at MTN for not giving me the right value for my money all because of this Simple surf plan. But I think MTN has been fair enough in their dealings with customers as regards the simple surf plan. What do I mean? Well, for those people who would just subscribe to a plan without finding out the details first, this is a lesson to be learnt. Whenever anything is being advertised by the telecoms providers, always run a check on their website to see the details of their advert.

When I checked MTN's website for the Simple surf plan, MTN made it plain that "FAIR USAGE POLICY APPLIES". I immediately ran a check on it on google to know what it meant. After my check, I called their customer desk to ask what it meant and I was SURPRISED that the guy doesnt know. Well, maybe I shouldn't have been so surprised cos they were not expected to know everything.

So by using the fair usage policy, and even though you are on a data unlimited plan, MTN expects you not to use above a certain amount of data. If you however try to exceed that limit, your data access will not be terminated but your speed will be greatly reduced so that in the long run, you won't be able to exceed the limit by a significant margin. For example, if you subscribe to the 2hours plan, you are not expected to use above 100MB or thereabout within that 2 hours. So after reaching 100MB, you will still be able to browse but at a terribly reduced speed say a drop from 700kbps to 15kbps.

So it turns out MTN is just a business trying to cash in on peoples failure to read. No abuses intended cos I was a victim too. Well, I have since left MTN for Airtel cos they offer me more for less.

Thanks guys.

Demdem:

This will help too

bizzle*:
MTN is a rogue organisation,Like the Proverbial devil everything it gives comes with a string attached.The Nigerian telecom market has been a literal goldmine to them, MTN prob has more subscribers (not necessarily active) than any other telecom operator @ the moment because, once upon a time whn GSM ws a miracle and Econet wireless (which had poor coverage) ws d only competition in town, they built a customer base that affords them d arrogance they display nw. @ d moment i have about 7 diff sims frm all 4 gsm service providers wch i acquired over d years and hv used for purposes ranging frm odinary voice calls to internet data access,adapting as the need arises.my very first was an MTN sim back in 2003, sometime later i bought anoda MTN sim for the den popular midnyt calls,not because MTN offered dat great a value bt because i had few options and in saving costs one had to be dynamic.as other players emerged in the industry call rates dropped drastically but MTN in dier natural greedy and arrogant manner stil had the highest charges.many subscribers like me couldnt really ditch thier old lines so they stuck to it for contacts' sake and simply got unto oda netwrks dat offered better value for money. while glo etisalat and zain have had tariffs of less dan N15/ min to oda netwrks for ages why did MTN wch has been robbing d Nigerian populace for so long (with tariffs as high as N50/min back den) wait till d competition ws practically choking it bizness before dey managed to make dier calls to oda netwrks a lil affordable. considering thier length of stay in Nigeria and earnings here, MTN should witout a doubt be the cheapest, but ironically dey're the most xpensive.
About GSM internet services, the first step to setting urself free is hacking ur modem. that affords u the freedom u need to be dynamic. various netwrks have varying signal strength in diff places, u need to find d fastest in ur loction. as d service quality deteriorates for any of d providers u migrate. currently d best value i'm getting for speed/cost/dataallowance is using airtel in my cracked glo modem.
@ N3700 a month i enjoy a data usage a lil in excess of 4GB. For daytime browsing i subscribe to airtel blackberry social monthly dis costs N1200 and gives u a 1024mb (1GB) data allowance for one month,i slip d sim inside my modem and i'm good to go. alota ppl dont knw dis wrks wt usb dongles.i dont use dis @ nyt so as not to exhaust d data allowance. and for d nyt surfing wch is whn i do most downloads i'm subscribed to the airtel nyt plan ,@ N2500 per month u get a lil above 3GB data, wch brings d total to 4GB for N3700, with a good speed.so with my modem set to "WCDMA only" i'm on 3G always and easily get download speeds in excess of 200kbps and stream videos on youtube too.and my modem is an ordinary 3.6Mbps dongle. bottom line look arnd u see wt wrks best for u. both sims cost me N300 and it dsnt take 10secs to switch. and by the way i dont tink glo and etisalat blackberry subscriptions can be used on a modem like u cn wt airtel, hvnt tried tho, jst tried MTN wch def dsnt wrk.hopefully in d nearest future internet facility will becom as cheap and manageably stable as voice calls in Nigeria. power to the ppl Screw MTN!!