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Few weeks ago, a thread made frontpage here on Nairaland about the terrible state of mobile internet in Nigeria:
https://www.nairaland.com/8648937/mtn-airtel-internet-getting-worse⁠

Many users shared their experiences, and a lot of people could relate to the complaints about slow browsing, unstable connections, and frequent network drops.

A Nigerian amputee lady recently lost a remote US call center job on her very first day all because of poor network connection.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3fU_qpFwZY

According to her, the connection kept failing during work hours, and before she could stabilize things, the opportunity was gone and her contract terminated.

Getting a remote job like that isn’t easy, especially in Nigeria, which makes the situation even more painful.

For some people, bad network is just frustrating…
But for others, it can cost real opportunities.

It's raining now.. And the network is really terrible.

timidapsin:
It's raining now.. And the network is really terrible.

If in dry seasons, when network supposed to be stable it's this bad, what will happen in raining season.? Efforts must be made by the authority in charge to avoid this horrible experience.lndeed Nigeria has happened to this beautiful and hardworking girl having spent her fortune into the job, but has nothing in return! How long?

But when e reach time for her to make video to post online, network good Abi..

She go dey alright

Airtel is shitty. MTN is much better.

Nigeria subtly just happened to her…

PulaPower:
But when e reach time for her to make video to post online, network good Abi..

She go dey alright

you are not making sense.. Sure all is well?

I feel for her , that's the downside of being a Nigerian

Pity you but next time don't rely on one Network. Any breakdown, switch to another one.

Belurved1:
Pity you but next time don't rely on one Network. Any breakdown, switch to another one.

I have multiple networks, yet same thing

The network is terrible these days both mtn and glo, even the mtn fibre is not left out.

It's obvious Networks want increase in tariffs. The tax master capitalist president will approve it

Village people have refused to leave her. Dem just wan finish her patapata. Pray oo

PulaPower:
But when e reach time for her to make video to post online, network good Abi..

She go dey alright

This your comment is coming from a place of ignorance.

PulaPower:
But when e reach time for her to make video to post online, network good Abi..

She go dey alright

atyms u all
Talk like animal .. no single
Sympathy .. May God bless u and your with her situation and make u feel
Her pain more in Jesus name .. amen 🙏 .

Make she go do spiritual bath for cleansing... dis life go far

This almost happened to me last year.

So, December last year, I got shortlisted for an interview for an overseas job.
I had to drive to the best network area. Waited well before the time.

Interview started, they were asking just what I know. Then one of my cousins who hasn't called me for years started calling. The more I ended the call, the more she called, disrupting my mobile network. I quickly picked it. She said she just wanted to say hi. At this hour and minute?
She hasn't called me again since then.

I apologized to the panel that it was my network and that it was quite unusual bla bla. They understood and we continued the interview.

Minutes into it again, network completely disappeared. No coverage at all. Ha! I drove around a bit and it reappeared and I reconnected. We continued.

Few minutes into it again, it disappeared. Now, I was sweating. After a while, it reappeared and they asked few more questions, I asked mine, and interview was over.

I was convinced the job was gone but days later, I received a contract. Everyone I knew who interviewed for it wasn't picked. It was like a miracle.

Nigeria system is almost built to frustrate everything.

It is so terrible regardless of how many networks you are switching on

New format


Beggars association take note

Which network did she use in uploading her video on social media

Desusi:
If in dry seasons, when network supposed to be stable it's this bad, what will happen in raining season.? Efforts must be made by the authority in charge to avoid this horrible experience.lndeed Nigeria has happened to this beautiful and hardworking girl having spent her fortune into the job, but has nothing in return! How long?

All these network providers need to be held accountable for the poor Internet network they have been dishing out recently. Cost of buying data keep increasing without commensurate improvement in network. The bad thing is that our regulators are not ready to whip the big stick.

PulaPower:
But when e reach time for her to make video to post online, network good Abi..

She go dey alright

You never see where moto go de give problem, na when you call mechanic to show am, the problem no go show, after mechanic go na the the problem go show pass sef.

The wisest thing to have done was to have a viable alternative on standby in case of an eventuality like this.
Test all the networks best in your area and stick to that.
I have all the GSM network providers and Spectranet too.
Sometimes, I find the unreliable Glo network useful when Airtel and Mtn choose to fûck up.

PulaPower:
But when e reach time for her to make video to post online, network good Abi..

She go dey alright

Dey calm down

She lost her job due to poor network at that particular time


Women are humans too....cos some of them no dey apply sense no me say all of them deserve bashing...

Once you have job that requires a constant online connection, you MUST have at least two network providers.

No way around this. It is what it is. Otherwise you are taking chances and can get messed up.

People also need to understand that I had power problem, I had network problem are not acceptable excuses. They are telling the employer or partner you are not the level of capacity they want and they will simply move on to someone with that capacity.

timidapsin:
I have multiple networks, yet same thing

There is no way all networks will be bad in your area.

Like in my environ, GLO has been the best, Airtel the worst, while MTN is fair.

We're slaves to politicians in this country and the earlier we understand that the better

Why the sensationalism headline? This happens to us all… sorry to her tho

She should have gone for MTN fibre. It is more reliable and fast. It may have not reached her area sha.

Oh I remember when I used to be a virtual assistant... I made more than $15,000 until network started frustrating me... I changed network multiple times yet it was still the same shit....I had to leave that hustle and started a company of my own.