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starcomms doesn't seem to be making attempts to improve. when visafone took over bourdex, coverage was poor in many areas with me getting like one or two bars in my house, now i get full bars in my house and in most areas of the city. this shows the company has really improved coverage. the same can not be said of starcomms, i stll get maximum 2 or 3 bars in my house. bandwidth has no improved too. i doubt if it will ever upgrade to Rev. A it existing Rev. O network. meanwhile Rev. B will go commercial this year. i wish visafone has EVDO working  in PH,  would have made that switch.
use to hear about Prestel launching Rev.A in PH and Lagos. the company just went dead silence. wonder what plans zoom, intercellular, mts, oduatel, have.

aieromon:
is that why you added fly to uche

what service provider did you run away from?

funny. when i was in Lagos it was nitel, then multikinks. when i got to PHC i subscribed to starcomms. on phone browsing, i use MTN and glo. glo 's gprs is the most consistent. sadly no glo 3G in PHC yet.

aieromon:
i suggest you run off to their Bishop Kale Close office and cop yourself their latest data card like lynx said.Starcomms remains the most consistent home internet provider

NA TRUE SHA

i receive mails like that telling me to update on some fake interswitch site. this guys come to nairaland, copy all the email adds and the forward these fraudulent mails. i just laugh when i get them, because the email add i posted on nairaland is a disposable one.

cabali:
well, I think, with all he has done and still does, fly has more passion for the iPhone than any hater I know.

thanks for the compliment.

cabali:
Meanwhile it is confirmed that there isnt provisioning going on with zain lines for now till sunday. So you get the settings, it aint useful until sunday when u can get ur line provisioned.

Plus I hear if you get the mobile internet within this period, by the zain/diamond bank/HP bundle, you get 2 months illegal browsing; aint that beautiful?

where you from de hear all these things. your ear carry radio? state your source nah even if na hints magazine or those 20 naira evening newspapers you read am.
what do you mean iilegal browsing if it's a promo?

lets continue the discussion. @ tex. that your reuters ref is not necessary. i was not comparing the iphone to nokia.stop being bitter. this your iphone no de give you joy at all your bad  belle too much.

zain never get gprs right them se them wan do 3G. check out the zain thread. men de use all manner of software and proxy or apn settings just to browse, with funny names like: tunnelling, cave, gpass, mountain, valley, tornado, hurricane, earthquake, abeg i no fit laff. if zain de work well why all the wahala becos person wan browse?

cabali:
For someone who gets educated from encomium, city people and ovation, I dont expect any aota of intelligence to come from you at all.

And trust me it has really affected you; you shout without cause. and mostly you shout gibberish. stay away from here cos there are intelligent people here; u cant cope

you don manage now buy zain modem person no go hear word for you.
i have been using the internet before you ever punch a key on a keyboard.

texazzpete:
More apt to say any phone that did not support emoji and lacked features such as 1seg TV would not be appreciated in Japan, no matter the maker. Western markets have little need for such things and they LOVE the iPhone. You're here on a Nigerian website, talking to people who have westernized values about what japanese people want?

this is a general discussion on the iphone, good or bad. no be your papa invent the iphone. is the iphone in any way nigerian?

texazzpete:
I'm not sure what prompted your frankly stupid statement on Symbian's marketshare in Japan. Symbian is not Nokia. As it stands, Nokia branded phones in Japan hold about 1% marketshare in JApan, hence Nokia's decision to pull out completely.

Nokia didn't pull out of Japan, their Vertu brand of phones are selling. nokia is not the only symbian phone maker. panansonic, sharp, nec, mitsubitshi,fujitsu etc that dominate the japanese market make symbian phones.

texazzpete:
I've noticed how condescending you sound when you refer to things other people do that do not appeal to you. People queued up to buy a gadget they liked. As far as you're concerned, that makes them 'jobless'. I once mentioned i use my Iphone to play games when i'm bored only for you to launch into the 'games are childish' speech.
How old are you, anyway?
And yes, you're a troll. We know you settled for an E71 because the iPhone was too expensive for your taste. All fine and good, and i agree the E71 is an excellent phone. So why do you need reassurance for your purchase? Why hop around on threads like these doing your best to sneer at the device you failed to get?

old enough to be your dad. frankly. and you think you don't sound condescending and stupid when any comment about the iphone you take personal?
is money the issue here? i make enough money i can pay your ass thru a british university.

one laptop remaining.

Bosunojay:
Not a baseless assumption. I use the Zain E220 modem outside Lagos and Abuja so my statement not "assumption" is based  on practice not TV advert.

i agree with you. zain has 3G alright but service is restricted to a few spots in Lagos only.

cabali:
You obviously dont know a thing abt the product you bought and the service provider you subscribed to.

First of all you have to read different threads on this forum to understand access point name having zain or celtel. I see you are very new here.

APNs containing celtel and zain will still connect. celtel is wap over 2.5 and zain is wap over 3g or 3.5g if they have it.

When they say the 7.2Mb/s, they mean the cap modem speed for the device. Even MTN's device has that as cap but do they attain that at anytime? no and thats because it is shared. I have got to abt 180kb/s and I posted the screen shot earlier.

That is how much I can tell u. U need more information, go back to earlier threads instead of ranting  

my friend shut up. you talk alot of trash! this guy has a modem he bought from zain, if he can't get 3G, then it's not available where he is. it has nothing to do with proxy settings or apn

@lynx. Yes those modems are Rev. A capable but Starcomms has Rev. A network only in Abuja, Multilinks, Visafone , Prest are deploying Rev. A
Rev. A , Rev. B or Rev. O won't make any difference if the operator doesn't have sufficent bandwidth for the teaming subscribers eg Starcomms. In the USA, Verizon and Sprint which have Rev. A networks offers better speed than at&t 's 3G(HSPA) network.

@ hayprof. We have been on Rev. O. Rev. A is available in Abuja only.

@ tex. While not making comparison here, note the symbian OS powers over 80% of the smartphones in Japan. The Japanese simply could not understand why a multimedia phone, that "won awards", or mesmerised hundreds of jobless youth to stand in a queue for hours, can not record video or send mms.

i have nothing against the iphone. but there more to user preference for a particular phone than just touch input. for a 3G phone, i would have loved it if i can use it as a modem. that small screen would not let me enjoy all that bandwidth ,worse still is a browser that doesn't support flash.
Currently almost all the apps available from the app store are useless, surviving a user lifespan of one day!

just one more to go!

texazzpete:
The iPhone won many awards for it's beauty, with many gadget blogs and review sites praising it then as the 'most gorgeous Phone in existence'

The fact that it doesn't appeal to the Japanese in an aesthetic sense is purely due to cultural differences.
But don't let that stop your trolling, little man. Nokia symbian phones have sold crappily in Japan also, yet that somehow escaped your trollish eyes?

judging from your manner of replies, you are the real troll.

talking about experience. no screenshots, no mention of download speeds. and if zain is so good why use proxy, tunnel, cave, mountain, valley or whatever app just so that you can browse? common guys, give us screenshots let see your speeds.

@poster so your computer don de attempt suicide?

the iphone has achieved a resounding failure in japan where in response to this the carrier operator , softbank, is luring customer with a zero price tag for a two year contract. the savvy japanese consider the phone too backward and ugly. interesting.

i am sticking to starcomms. while they are not offering out of the world speed, i have not experienced any major problem on their network. imagine , MTN just yanked their gprs, EDGE and 3G off the air without apology, forewarning or regard to customer live subscriptions. 4 days now no gprs in PH.

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sms is not free nah. u pay for it when u pay for sub. sms is part of data. just that even when your sub don expire the thing still de send msg

lynxnoon:
like Esset Smart Security
but wil dis allow d torrents to go on?

yes.

lynxnoon:
@flyuche
i dont tink strcom can [b]STEADILY [/b]offer d speed MTN 3G is offering oh!! not wit d speds am geting currently

that's my point. they don't have enough bandwidth to support the army of download freaks. banning users that use torrent in my opinion is wrong. if they don't want people doing this massive downloads, then cap the usage. or do they expect us to just browse just like that?
any way like i have said before get a good internet security app that can block intrusion from starcomms,

so starcomms has started policing their subscribers. whats wrong using torrent? this is admission that they are struggling with bandwidth. if they can offer the speed MTN 3G does am very sure they would cap it.

i think i will get this one@samir

your laptop de vex for MTN?

infobaba which area u de for lagos? bi like se na only u de enjoy ds zain.