₦airaland Forum

Road_Lord: 10 years ago, On-net, MTN was charging N50 for 0-59 seconds. Today, it charges barely 10k/s. SMS was N15, now N4. Infrastructure didn't improve.

Then, Sim sold btw 6-25K, today it is about N25 with I beg. Only the casing changed.

BB plan use to be 5K, down to 3K. Few weeks ago, MTN BB plan was 3K, unlimited. The price was slashed and the package was capped. Nepa is still PHCN

Why would glo sell 3072MB for 1k and MTN gives 300MB for same 1K.

I can't remember any improvement in infrastructure. We are talking exploitation, you are saying infrastructure. Same excuse in 2001.

Do you know MTN has a target of 50 Billion Naira monthly in Nigeria market, a market where infrastruture is any issue.

Has it even occurred to you that almost every business can use "infrastructure" excuse.

Those using infrastructure as an excuse is not in touch with reality.

ITbomb: People tend to think that Internet Bandwidth is like a tap the service provider turn at will .
NO
The main determinate is the capacity of the gateway to carry quality traffic.
Nigeria has not invested much in internet services . NigComSat is useless , fiber optics is mostly private and limited.
Turning the tap full on for all subscribers will grind the network to a halt .
It is like JAMB , if Nigerian Universities had the capacity to take everyone who wishes to pursue tertiary education ,there will be no need for JAMB .
The high subscription is like a bottleneck to to provide near-quality service to few who can afford it within the capacity of the system

I didn't agree with you on the bolded. Glo has its own fibre optics and their internet subscription is stilll high. More over using high price to place a bottle neck for quality is not good for business. The private operators has the right to upgrade their services to accomodate their numerous subscribers. Are you now saying that in those days they charged us 50 naira per minute on voice calls was because they want to place a bottle neck for quality?
Today airtel is making much money on internet subscription because they allowed their BB subscription to run on other devices and they haven't complained of network overload.

iyobs7: Until unlimited power supply is guaranteed in Nigeria, we should forget about the cost of internet going down. I am studying in India with a population of more than 1.2billion people and they have uninterrupted power supply. I am using fiber broadband internet of 15mbps with Fair usage policy of 50GB after that the speed drops to 4mbps unlimited and I pay just 1100 rupees per month which is not even up to 3000 naira. Let the government fix electricity issue then you can talk or you want them to burn fuel or diesel then layer give u cheap internet?

To be honest with you I didn't see any logic in what you said. It wasn't constant electricity that made them to sale sim card at the rate of 100 naira as against 30,000 naira. It wasn't constant electricity that made them to reduce call tariffs from 50 naira per minute to 20 kobo per seconds. In as much as we yean for constant electricity which seems to be a long thing, we want cheaper internet subscription rates.

Uyi Iredia: 2kdoesn't look sustainable because it will more likely ovaload the Internet data trunkline. I agree tho' that they should shore up Internet facilities and reduce the price: till then, I'll find tweaks. But, seriously if I find between 6-8k per month uncapped I'll be impressed, moreso if the price is lesser but that's unlikely.

That's not a good reason because the internet trunkline as you put it can be expanded to accomodate the traffic on it.
May be you don't want poor people to have access to internet. How many people can afford a monthly uncapped internet at the rate of 6-8k? Remeber that minimium wage is 18k

kaorama: Buhara boys at work. Could this be a reward for what their fathers did to the Biafrans?

They are harvesting the good fruits of One Nigeria.

Hon. Kontigi:
This magazine is PDP-sponsored to destabilize APC.

Or PDP new or old is responsible for the sickness and your addiction to weeds.
I thought that APC have promised heaven on earth and fashola is the self acclaimed best governor in Nigeria, how come no hospital in all the APC control states can't handle this case of their leader?

i subscribed for BIS since yesterday, but up till now i can't browse and the phone have not registered. 08138085939 STORM 2 9550

Akamu and Stew: Ex-Convicts and Militants are GEJ's best friends...

..Talk about $HIT and Flies...

That's the best option rather than have drug addicts, looters and terrorists as best friends.

Too bad he choose the path of destruction. No thanks to our so governments that are not helping matters.