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| Re: The Birth Of GSM In Nigeria: Who Made The First Call? by anonimi: 3:04am On May 08, 2025 |
onuman:Ebilokan has always been synonymous with failure, corruption and crime. From drugs in America to the Enron barge scandal in Lagos and now the fiasco of APC shege fraudulently sold to us in propaganda lies of change 10 years ago, Yekini Amoda Ogunlere has been, and continues to be a disaster! Is Aba Geometric, started in the same Obasanjo PDP era not operating now just as the Dangote refinery started in the Jonathan PDP era? What is the excuse of ebilokan and his successors for their Enron failure apart from stealing, looting, fraud and corruption? https://www.forbes.com/2004/09/20/cx_da_0920topnews.html https://www.nairaland.com/7545854/how-atiku-prevented-tinubu-scamming https://allafrica.com/stories/200002030261.html Judge hands out prison time in Enron barge scam |
| Re: The Birth Of GSM In Nigeria: Who Made The First Call? by wazobia68: 3:06am On May 08, 2025 |
Do a quick search on Motophone Nigeria. Then you would know that he is not far from the truth. My friend was working for Motophone. aworatak: |
| Re: The Birth Of GSM In Nigeria: Who Made The First Call? by Myrepublic(m): 4:39am On May 08, 2025 |
omonnakoda:If na APC dey government then,so you think say the thing for reach your p.A p.A hand? Dey there dey make mouth.. |
| Re: The Birth Of GSM In Nigeria: Who Made The First Call? by sucess001(m): 4:53am On May 08, 2025 |
raumdeuter:At least your boss brought poverty to Nigeria |
| Re: The Birth Of GSM In Nigeria: Who Made The First Call? by okeke6969: 5:01am On May 08, 2025 |
Remember, then, every recharge you made, one naira goes to Obasanjo account. Is this not systemic extortion? E don tey wey corruption dey. |
| Re: The Birth Of GSM In Nigeria: Who Made The First Call? by azpekuliar: 5:30am On May 08, 2025 |
omonnakoda:The technology was already there as early as 1997 in Benin Republic next door. Political instability was what delayed its introduction in Nigeria. Abacha was on the verge of granting licenses to operators circa 1998. Cc: Happyney65 |
| Re: The Birth Of GSM In Nigeria: Who Made The First Call? by Jeje247: 5:41am On May 08, 2025 |
omonnakoda:The ones in power now want to ban solar importation. Infact, they would have announced introduction of GSM but keep promising us throughout their tenure that official launch will happen soon. |
| Re: The Birth Of GSM In Nigeria: Who Made The First Call? by Demajor2022: 5:42am On May 08, 2025 |
Olodo. The first GSM company in Nigeria was MTS and it was late Abacha that introduced GSM to Nigeria. MTS already rolled out in Lagos and it was Abdulsalami that canceled their license. It was the same MTS frequency was Obasanjo sold to Adenuga that made him went to bcus MTS was still in court with federal govt trying to get back their license. |
| Re: The Birth Of GSM In Nigeria: Who Made The First Call? by papiilo(m): 6:06am On May 08, 2025 |
Obasanjo ![]() |
| Re: The Birth Of GSM In Nigeria: Who Made The First Call? by huptin(m): 6:16am On May 08, 2025 |
helinues:We have technology now for bullet trains, power generation has never been this easy, different sources including solar and nuclear, agriculture technology that can increase yield by over 300% how come this government and the previous disastrous ones have been unable to take advantage of them? |
| Re: The Birth Of GSM In Nigeria: Who Made The First Call? by mekuso89(m): 6:28am On May 08, 2025 |
omonnakoda:you are 💯 right
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| Re: The Birth Of GSM In Nigeria: Who Made The First Call? by OlujobaSamuel: 6:43am On May 08, 2025 |
happney65:There are other mobile devices that isn't GSM. I had a classmate in school then that uses one, he from a wealthy family, so he and his siblings were given a gadget each, they use it to communicate in sch and their parents also use it to communicate with them. I think it's like a walkie talkie system, as it kinda work on some specific frequency. It looks a bit fancy with flashy colours |
| Re: The Birth Of GSM In Nigeria: Who Made The First Call? by vicfajeze: 7:19am On May 08, 2025 |
omonnakoda:Obidients will never see anything good from Obasanjo |
| Re: The Birth Of GSM In Nigeria: Who Made The First Call? by JuanDeDios: 7:33am On May 08, 2025 |
Great100000:This article does not mention the early (CDMA) players–the Multilinks, the Emis, the Starcomms, etc. Some of them were operating before Econet and MTN. People had mobile phones in Nigeria before Econet and MTN came. |
| Re: The Birth Of GSM In Nigeria: Who Made The First Call? by JuanDeDios: 7:37am On May 08, 2025 |
happney65:There were mobile phones in Nigeria before GSM. Multilinks, Starcomms and other CDMA networks were operating in Nigeria before the GSM people opened shop. |
| Re: The Birth Of GSM In Nigeria: Who Made The First Call? by justli: 7:46am On May 08, 2025 |
happney65:Morally and Intellectually bankrupted individuals continue to cast aspersions on Obasanjo even though their entire history cannot complete a chapter in Obasanjo's book. APC really is cursed. If only Obasanjo had kpaied the drug addict when he was president, he could ride the country of a big mess |
| Re: The Birth Of GSM In Nigeria: Who Made The First Call? by justli: 7:48am On May 08, 2025 |
vicfajeze:Funny thing is, up until now, every Yoruba person I know hated Obasanjo. They chose tinubu over him. |
| Re: The Birth Of GSM In Nigeria: Who Made The First Call? by omonnakoda: 7:56am On May 08, 2025 |
vicfajeze:Why are you telling me that? What has that got to do with me? Who is an Obidient? Is your father an Obidient? |
| Re: The Birth Of GSM In Nigeria: Who Made The First Call? by okey4reel(m): 8:08am On May 08, 2025 |
Nice |
| Re: The Birth Of GSM In Nigeria: Who Made The First Call? by Psoul(m): 8:08am On May 08, 2025 |
omonnakoda:There are so many technologies evolving everyday especially in the developed countries. Why are the leaders at the point of these tech not bringing it to the country? Why are they not even able to support the local tech? Give honour to whom it is due. |
| Re: The Birth Of GSM In Nigeria: Who Made The First Call? by sweetkev(m): 8:13am On May 08, 2025 |
happney65:He did nothing except bringing mobile communication to Nigeria. |
| Re: The Birth Of GSM In Nigeria: Who Made The First Call? by Emzedz: 8:20am On May 08, 2025 |
Can someone call d old senile mandate to order.. he is d worst ruler ever in naija. |
| Re: The Birth Of GSM In Nigeria: Who Made The First Call? by Belurved1(m): 8:25am On May 08, 2025 |
Kudos to all responsible Mothers. Olachase: |
| Re: The Birth Of GSM In Nigeria: Who Made The First Call? by Jadeng: 8:28am On May 08, 2025 |
wrong! He may have made the first call during the official lunch... But the person(s) who made the FIRST CALL would be the Core Network/Transmission/Wireless engineers who worked hard in the background to make it happen. Great100000: |
| Re: The Birth Of GSM In Nigeria: Who Made The First Call? by Proudlyngwa(m): 8:33am On May 08, 2025 |
happney65:Indomie generation Intercellular Retel Mobitel Starcomm All had mobile lines |
| Re: The Birth Of GSM In Nigeria: Who Made The First Call? by omonnakoda: 8:34am On May 08, 2025 |
Psoul:Did we we honour to any other president for happening to be in power when any other technology arrived? Or is that the only technology that has come to Nigeria? What about the other technologies that have been around for ever that he could not bring like power and refineries that work? Who was in office when Television came to Nigeria? Traffic lights, Toothpaste, Telephones, and so on You need to keep quiet and stop making noise |
| Re: The Birth Of GSM In Nigeria: Who Made The First Call? by joshuaidibia(m): 8:44am On May 08, 2025 |
omonnakoda:Tinubu is president now that bullet train exists in other countries, has he brought it to Nigeria? Sometimes you people will just open your mouth waaa and say rubbish. If Obasanjo was incompetent do you think he would have done that? |
| Re: The Birth Of GSM In Nigeria: Who Made The First Call? by Ouchbabe(f): 8:55am On May 08, 2025 |
I remember the day my girlfriend and I went to buy our first mobile phones in 2002. After paying, those criminals at Onitsha insisted that we must buy antenna . We told them that we don't have money for any antenna. Long story cut short.....some passers-by (guys) intervened and settled the matter. |
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