₦airaland Forum

aotlatitude:
I can testify to that.

I concur. Here in PH etisalat has been unusually slow for the past month or so.

I agree. Glo is looking more and more like the first network to go under. Their network has been pretty poor for years and it seems the owner is refusing to invest in equipment upgrade. Sure sign of a dying company.

Is the OTP for real? There is nothing cheaper about this. Same plans as they've had for years except for the first 2. On case you don't know airtel has N5k for 12 Gb, MTN has N5k for 10Gb and you tell me etisalat N6.5k for 5Gb is cheap!?

Why is PPPRA still relevant in a deregulated environment? They should keep the best of them and let the others go.

bejeiodus:
I have always supported its removal too. But the issue was muddled up in 2012 for cheap political gains.
Nothing assures anyone that the money the removal of fuel subsidy will put in government coffers will be used wisely.

True, but you have to make choices based on what you see. If a had to choose between that government and this one managing the savings, I'd choose this one.

bejeiodus:
The statement was well worded. It was a euphemic way of announcing the removal of fuel subsidy. It is so disheartening that we would have long gone past this if today's proponents of subsidy removal had not opposed the policy four years ago. I hope Nigerians can see clearly how they were fed lies to stir up their anger against Jonathan.
It is the way to go, but Nigerians need to ask those who came up with the policy why they resisted the removal four years ago.
The APC must apologize to Nigerians, particularly families of those who lost their lives during the subsidy protests. It is the only way of showing contrition for misleading millions of people.

You have a point. But the main reason it was opposed it then was because people had no confidence in the ability of the government of the time to use the saved funds wisely. Also the economic conditions are very different. Even labour unions now must bow to the superior economic arguments. Personally I've always supported subsidy removal.

But no be lie now!! In public sector, private sector, even churches...corruption is everywhere!

Make everyone who has commented on this topic a Minister today and let's see how many can be proven not to have misappropriated at least N100k in one year.

We should stop being hypocritical to ourselves!! The truth is the truth!

Everyone kicks against corruption on paper, but keep N5k with anyone, even a 10 year old kid these days, and you will struggle to get it back complete.

I agree. Just finished using it and I didn't get the impression it was a complete 12Gb either. Besides Airtel network seems to have slowed down in recent weeks except in the dead of night.

They have been in Port Harcourt for about 3 months now.

Meanwhile I don't see any update on their website o. Is this real abi na Bobo?

I think MTN is preparing ahead for their LTE. They want to make the 3.5g data cheap and the LTE one more expensive most probably cos I don't see their data being at these rates when they start LTE.

HIGHESTPOPORI:
If Jonathan could construct the Benin Ore road with Paltry 18Billionaira,let's see how many Federal roads Buhari would repair with 200Billionaira

That was done with sureP

Pidggin:
Dem no dey tell person, Buhari for avoid dis trouble in the first place, but im dey form Sheriff

Well said! That statement about handling militants like boko haram lacked tact! Boko haram is way easier to defeat than ND militants mainly due to the terrain.

This Nigeria get problems Sha. I can really relate to those who want to get out of this country by all means. Nigeria never helps you... it always bleeps you up the more...!!

They should all be a bit worried, especially Gsm networks like airtel and etisalat that have no access to spectrum that can be used to deliver LTE and even LTE companies like smile and Co that don't have national spread.

Now we know why etisalat wanted to cry foul when MTN bought visa phone. MTN is big enough and has deep enough pockets to dominate the others of it gets LTE before them which will be a big deal because up till now data was probably the only area where MTN wasnt a leader.
The emergence of this LTE is why airtel have suddenly started mega data packs like glo. Glo was because it knows that is data network is the worst so it had to lead in data volume. Airtels network on the other hand is okay, but it's planning ahead for the onslaught from MTN by giving more data and hopefully getting loyal customers locked in. Etisalat on the other hand hasn't fully played is card. This 4.5gb for 3.5 is the first step, but it probably has to do more than that. However it knows it has the best Gsm data network (which in some cases can rival a poor LTE network) so they are not as panicky.

If mtns LTE will be priced like what I see on their hynet page for their existing LTE which is only available in Lagos and ibadan at the moment, then it's be worried too.

greenhulk:
Maybe in the Lagoon lol. Ntel are not serious yet, I don't even think they have up to 20,000 subscribers yet and they supposedly launched on April 8th that is almost 1 month. people are getting 50mbps now with less than 20,000 subscribers, lets see what the speed will be when they have 5 million subscribers.

If they ever get to 5m subscribers at this rate...!

Rather drab looking house

And why exactly are service Chiefs driving BMW 7series!! This is a luxury car. Why does a camry not suffice.

Personally I think they are dead on arrival. If this is how they intend to start in a business where they are a very late entrant, then it's all over before or has even begun.

Come to think of it though, I wonder if this commercial operations is just a smoke screen! It could be they bought nitel just to get access to physical landed properties, of which nitel has plenty juicy one's across the country.

ugolance:
Story! Pure & applied wash... u mean d same economy u were meant to monopolize? Smh

Continue to sit down on your sorry behind Continue complaint about Dangotes actions o! The man is taking the rewards of investment. The typical Nigerian business man likes to simply trade. Buy and sell finish. They refuse to manufacture because it takes more time, more thinking, more investment, but much more reward. Lafarge was in Nigeria long before dangote started manufacturing cement, but the had maintained the same level of production for almost 15 years. Only when dangote start producing far more than them did they invest in another plant. So why would such a company now cry foul because dangote produces say 5 times more cement than them.

modath:
You want jail terms for "persecuted" & "witch hunted" people?

Yes we want jail terms!! If they stole, then they should do their time. Simple! If they had never stolen would they have been able to be persecuted?

The bleaching creams of these days ehn....the fairness no dey get part two!!

otokx:
220 per litre in Port Harcourt despite the celebrated restarting of the refinery.

I tire o! Just bought at 210 an hour ago. Seems to be gradually coming down though.

I'm confused! Why do we need a greenfield Expressway from Abuja to ibadan and then to Lagos? What happened to the existing route? Surely that would be easy cheaper. And who needs a 27 storey building? I thought we'd hear more about hydro power projects.

The only thing that I see that really makes sense there is the solar power plant and the red train line in Lagos

Looks reasonably well built. Probably the worst built mall I've seen in Nigeria is the one at ring road Ibadan, with their undulating car park.

The best is probably Ikeja mall.

Not particularly fast! Airtel network send to have slowed down again of recent

I'm impressed. So there is actually a trial going on.

Is Mtn planning to launch a 4g network?

So if FG no longer intends to subsidise PMS, it should go to the next step and fully deregulate and open up the sector for anyone to bring in product and sell, or better still set up refinery cos importing the product still consumes our scarce forex

Or maybe we bear this brunt until Dangote refinery opens in 2018?

I wonder what's keeping glo from fixing it's shitty network. These complaints of fluctuating network have been on for years across the nation yet no upgrade:

martyns303:
Ameachi did pretty well in his first tenure, he hired indigenous construction companies to build roads, the downside to this is that these companies lack track records and the roads soon dilapidated, then he went the dark side and everything stopped working.

Wike is using JB and those guys make some of the best roads.

This is so untrue!! I live in port Harcourt andbi don't know which roads you refer to that are dilapidated. Let me remind you of the roads Amaechi dualised

Old ABA road
Rumuola road
Trans Amadi road to slaughter
Stadium road
Elekahia road
Stadium road - rumuola link road
Okporo road
Azikiwe road (by government house)
Forces avenue
Nnlg road to Eastern by pass roundabout
The road that passes beside rainbow town
The other end of elekahia road to nlng axis


And I'm sure a few more in parts of town I don't visit and NONE of these roads is dilapidated!!