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Music/RadioRe: 41 Dirty Questions To Ask A Girl by Osocan(m): 2:47pm On Sep 04, 2015
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EducationRe: Single Rotor-Helicopter Built By 6 Students Of CRUTECH (photos) by Osocan(m): 2:23pm On Sep 04, 2015
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BusinessRe: Weekly Banker For English Footballpool by Osocan(op): 9:14am On Sep 03, 2015
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PhonesRe: The Big Data Plan Rip-off, By Tope Fasua by Osocan(m): 12:54pm On Aug 24, 2015
zik4ever:
This matter is touching me to the marrow right now. Imagine! So, these our phone companies and Internet Service Providers are trying to convince, abi na ‘confuse’ me, that I use 1GB (one gigabyte) daily! Bia, when did I start hearing of ‘Gigabyte’ sef? I just did a quick google search and it says the first Gigabyte Hard-drive, IBM 3380 was manufactured in 2013. You see, Gigabyte used to be the stuff that ‘mainframe’ computers, as huge as a fridge was made of. But now, MTN says I used that much everyday!
Not only MTN. Which haven’t I tried in Nigeria? I’ve tried Visafone, Spectranet, Startech, Starcomms…all the works. Same result. Sometimes, some of them are unnecessarily slow, so you just want something that works; at any cost.
Then they start to hit you. We live in the knowledge age, and everyone of us will get smarter over time. Google is everyone’s friend, to ask questions and find out stuff. That means that we will protest every now and then. The emerging global economic terrain is one whereby technology creates seamless transparency which challenges businesses, their profitability, and of course, the wages of workers and jobs too. I am of the view that the greatest contribution of technology is to make life cheaper even if it takes jobs away. But life will become cheaper, quicker for societies who are aware and who speak up.
I buy 7.5GB of data from MTN for N8,000. Within a week, everything disappears. In my office, we buy 50GB of data from Spectranet for N17,500. In 10 days it disappears. In between using my own data on my MTN phone – which I also tether to my laptop, I sometimes rely on my wife’s internet subscription. Same story, different network. If I have to renew my MTN data (as I usually do), I spend at least N24,000 ($110 monthly). I hardly stream videos, mind you. If I renew for my office, I will spend N52,500 (about $250). Between myself and my wife, and our offices, we spend about N100,000 (over $450) on internet services alone, each month!
I think what is going on here is akin to what went on in the beginning of Nigeria’s mobile phone epiphany. In 2001/2, we would actually purchase a sim card for between N20,000 and N30,000 and under the flat N50 per minute tariff regime, some of us spent another N40,000 monthly just to talk to each other. Sometimes I think about the ‘stupid’ manner we (or I) have spent money in the past and shudder. Indeed it is a Nigerian thing. We just spend. I don’t think it is sustainable and this is not how to run a society but our leaders seem not to care about these things. The average Briton thinks about how best to spend his/her money, seeks bargains. Ditto an American. But the Nigerian just spends. He spends, knowing that that God loves him more that the Brit or Yankee, and would always bail him out before he hits the ground. God shows up actually, but the Nigerian helps himself too many times. If he is a civil servant, that is when he gets desperate. If he is a cashier in a private firm, he pilfers.
So, just like in 2001, I think we should pitch these phone companies together. In the first place, I sometimes feel they are rigging the game. Y’know, just like we drive to the fuel station and we see N87 per litre on the metre, but the damn attendant is selling to us at N120 per litre! How they do it I don’t know. But DPR just closed a few of them lately. Welcome to Nigeria; the most religious country on earth. If filling stations can rig metres, why not ISPs? In this instance there is no way of benchmarking or confirming anything. Everything is in the ‘clouds’. Oya, go and find it there na! I feel that these bytes thing is running faster than ever these days! Why?
In 2003 or so, Glo came on board and spoilt the market for MTN, which never refunded the excess charges it had ripped off Nigerians and transferred in Dollars to its South African investors. Ehmmm… Not that Glo was just using its ‘church mind’, but that was the ONLY way it could come back into reckoning having lost ground seriously due to a rift with government. In fact, a certain obnoxious policy whereby unused credit in one’s account disappeared after two weeks had to be ditched when it became apparent that subscribers were ditching Glo phones fast! Interconnectivity was a nightmare in those days and so, subscribers who enthusiastically put N15,000 call credit in their accounts saw most of the money disappearing after two weeks. They couldn’t believe their eyes.
Before writing this I called around to find out how this internet data thing works elsewhere. In the UK, for about 18 pounds (N6,000) a month, most homes have UNLIMITED data. In the US, same thing, maybe a little more expensive. My friends abroad should help me confirm how it works though. As I stated earlier, TECHNOLOGY, which we don’t produce, is only good for making life easier and cheaper. But apparently those who are in the first line of disseminating technology (which they don’t produce), in Nigeria, take delight in keeping Nigerians in the dark for as long as possible… and ‘hammering’ us!
UNLIMITED DATA ACCESS is apparently now the fad around the world, and I believe strongly that we can pay a lot less than we are paying for these things. Every of these big businesses in Nigeria tells us of all the infrastructure problems as if small businesses exist in a different planet and don’t also face the same challenges. Small time you will hear of ‘diesel’ and ‘generator’. Truth; they all see Nigeria as good for ripping off only. That is why MTN, Hilton, Shoprite and some other chains make their most money from Nigeria. It is Nigerians I pity. The tunnel vision is something else. So long as we have avenue to get some, we don’t ever think about the collective. But whether you are ‘blessed and highly favoured’ or something to that effect, remember that when you pay for these exorbitant services, you are basically a mugu. Money spent can never be regained. And what goes around surely comes around. When you get an avenue to rip off the system and ignore systemic malaises, you end up running from pillar to post in a dysfunctional society. They are not ‘mumus’ in developed countries for thinking the way they think and organising their societies in a SUSTAINABLE manner.
Now, biko nu, Dan’Allah, Ntori Olo’un, what do we do about this data rip-off? Which ISP will give us unlimited browsing for like N5K a month?
Tope Fasua, an economist and consultant, is CEO of Global Analytics Consulting.
http://blogs.premiumtimesng.com/?p=168553
when I become the President.
BusinessRe: Weekly Banker For English Footballpool by Osocan(op): 12:32pm On Aug 24, 2015
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EducationRe: Which Mathematics Textbook(s) Is The Best For Engineering Students? by Osocan(m): 7:22am On Jun 21, 2015
eitsei:
advanced engineering mathematics by HK DASS
please can I get a link to download this book?
EducationRe: Nairaland Mathematics Clinic by Osocan(m): 7:18am On Jun 21, 2015
pls can someone send me a link I can download advanced engineering mathematics by hk dass
please.
PhonesRe: 5 Things You Probably Never Knew Your Mobile Phone Could Do.. by Osocan(m): 8:09am On Jun 17, 2015
prest:
There are a few things that can be done in times of grave emergencies. . Your mobile phone canv actually be a life saver or an emergency tool for survival. Check out the things that you can do with it:
FIRST: Emergency
The Emergency Number worldwide for Mobile is 112.
If you find yourself out of the coverage area of your mobile; network and there is an emergency,
dial 112 and the mobile will search any existing network to establish the emergency number for you, and interestingly this number 112 can be dialled even if the keypad is locked. Try it out...
SECOND: Have you locked your keys in the car?
Does your car have remote keyless entry? This may come in handy someday.
Good reason to own a cell phone: If you lock your keys in the car and the spare keys are at home, call someone at home on their mobile phone from your cell phone.
Hold your cell phone about a foot from your car door and have the person at your home press the unlock button, holding it near the mobile phone on their end. Your car will unlock.
Saves someone from having to drive your keys to you.
Distance is no object. You could be hundreds of miles away, and if you can reach someone who has the other ' remote ' for your car, you can unlock the doors (or the trunk)...
Editor ' s Note: It works fine! We tried it out and it unlocked our car over a mobile phone! '
THIRD: Hidden Battery Power
Imagine your mobile battery is very low. To activate, press the keys *3370#
Your mobile will restart with this reserve and the instrument will show a 50% increase in battery.
This reserve will get charged when you charge your mobile next time.
FOURTH: How to disable a STOLEN mobile phone?
To check your Mobile phone ' s serial number, key in the following digits on your phone: *#06#
A 15 digit code will appear on the screen. This number is unique to your handset..
Write it down and keep it somewhere safe. When your phone get stolen, you can phone your service provider and give them this code. They will then be able to block your handset so even if the thief changes the SIM card, your phone will be totally useless.
You probably won ' t get your phone back, but at least you know that whoever stole it can ' t use/sell it either. If everybody does this, there would be no point in people stealing mobile phones.
FIFTH : ATM - PIN Number Reversal - Good to Know
If you should ever be forced by a robber to withdraw money from an ATM machine, you can
notify the police by entering your PIN # in reverse. For example, if your pin number is 1234,
then you would put in 4321.
The ATM system recognizes that your PIN number is backwards from the ATM card you placed in the machine. The machine will still give you the money you requested, but unknown to the robber, the police will be immediately dispatched to the location.
This information was recently broadcast on CTV by Crime Stoppers however it is seldom used because people just don't know about it...... Please pass this along to everyone.
This is the kind of information people don't mind receiving, so pass it on to your family and friends.
none of them dey work for Nigeria.
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Nairaland GeneralHow To Stop Mtn Frustrating Adverts/textmessages. by Osocan(op): 7:21pm On Jun 12, 2015
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PoliticsRe: President Buhari Is On Nairaland! by Osocan(m): 9:40pm On Jun 10, 2015
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Jokes EtcBreaking News by Osocan(op): 8:30pm On May 06, 2015
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If I hear anything else, I'll still let you know......
BusinessRe: Football(+ Other Sports) Betting Season 9 by Osocan(m): 7:01am On May 02, 2015
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Car TalkRe: See The New Range Rover Worth 29,850,000 Naira by Osocan(m): 7:31am On Apr 26, 2015
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PhonesRe: Facebook Notifications Are Going To Change - You May Not Like It by Osocan(m): 7:05am On Apr 26, 2015
Interesting
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Jokes EtcDari Is God Ooooooo by Osocan(op): 6:49am On Apr 24, 2015
A girl started noticing a guy who
stands in front of her home everyday
in the evening.
She noticed the guy always comes
mostly in the evenings and
weekends.
The guy never tried to talk to her nor
showed any gesture, he just moves
here and there by looking into his
mobile phone and occasionally
stealing a stare at her.
It went on like that for a year and the
girl understood the guy was in love
with her but was too shy to express
his feelings.
So, she told her parents.
They too saw him and liked him.
They discussed with her
grandparents about a likely marriage.
But wanted her to make the first
move.
The next day, she went to him and
said, Hi.
I'm Jada.
He said, Hi. I'm Smith.
Hearing this, the girl was very happy
as the names were matching like Will
Smith and Jada Pinkett.
The girl went on and said, I really
appreciate your patience and
decency.
You have been standing in front of
my home everyday for about a year
now.
So, I understand that you are in love
with me but too shy to say it.
I think i really like you too and would
love it if we get married.
The guy smiled and said, Forgive me
sister!
Actually your home's WIFI doesn't
have a password.
So, i come here every evening after
work to use free wi-fi to chat with my
girlfriend!
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