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naijaboiy:
[color=#1980BC]so what did obasanjo actually approve in 2001?[/color]

1) A new technical standard for mobile phones in Nigeria.


These are the mobile phone standards that have been introduced in Nigeria (apart from 3G and 4G) and the year in which they were introduced.


Total Access Communication System (TACS) - 1991. (090 numbers)

Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) - c1997 (used landline state codes, eg 01 for Lagos).

Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM) - 2001 (080 numbers, etc)




2) A further deregulation of the telecommunications sector.

Nitel was the sole provider of telecommunications services when mobile phones were introduced in 1991. The phones and systems were very expensive. You could only buy your phones from Nitel and they cost anything between 100,000 naira to 220,000 naira. In Lagos the signals were only broadcast from two towers, one at Saka Tinubu on Victoria Island and the other in Ikeja. You were billed when you made a call and you also paid when someone called you. You paid extra for out of state calls.

The telecoms sector was first deregulated around 1997. Private telecoms companies could then provide mobile phone services, but the restrictions that were placed on them were too much (the government didn't want them to be able to compete with Nitel). For example, some PTOs could only provide mobile phone services in Lagos. Most companies were restricted to one or two states. Most of the new companies used the CDMA system. If I remember correctly, this is when companies like Multilinks, Intercellular, etc came into the business.

In 2001 the government allowed foreign companies to bid for GSM licenses. The companies were given national roaming rights, which meant that they could operate in any state in Nigeria. The phones were much cheaper and competition drove down the cost of services, which meant that newspaper vendors, students and basically anybody could afford a mobile phone for the first time.

Explorers:
3. Nokia 6800.

Lool so ds fone has a name...I rocked ds mennnn

Naijaboiy these were the kind of phones that were used between 1991-1997 (they are sometimes called bricks or nought-nine-nought phones).


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Young03:
I have touched all these phones

such lies

10, 14 and 19

Explorers:
8. Bird.

My first phone back then in 2006. Thanks to ahlaji who gave it to me as a gift.

Explorers:
8. Bird.

My first phone back then in 2006. Thanks to ahlaji who gave it to me as a gift.

Explorers:
8. Bird.

My first phone

wwhitewitch:
I first started using a nokia phone dat d ringtone was rock with me, rock with me, lol mehnn team number 4,13,14 and 15. "damm!!! those days when guys will use 100 glo or mtn card to get 10mb, at first in glo there was no mb for 100card so we downloaded each game 4 abt 25 to 40 naira, wow team sefan.ru, team waptrick.com, dats how boys dicovered dat wapdam is d same as waptrick, team wapking.com, lol downloading real football 2006 in class in secondary school b4 men upgraded to ngage thanks to nokia symbian, mehnn see hd games like real football 2009hd, call of duty hd, splinter cell hd, underworld hd, etc, lol those days when boys were forming ogas.

I remember if u manage to have 20mb u could use it to download more than 10games and still have like 15mb remaining.

joseph214:
I remember if u manage to have 20mb u could use it to download more than 10games and still have like 15mb remaining.

lol very true

sinizia:
Good 'ol days, when Nokia and Samsung ruled the phone world. If you didn't know these Nokias, Alcatel, Sagems, you are still in your teens. Those were the days when Nokia 1600 felt like Samsung Galaxy S5.

add starcomms to that mix...

Explorers:
19. Nokia 1100.

my first phone

darkenedrebel:
add starcomms to that mix...

That grandpa.

Kingtim:
of course. I saw a fully functioning one. But i was never allowed close to it,,, just incase you want to ask me how its been operated..

You be yeye person. Can't just stop laughing cos we had to wait for my dad to come back from work.Uno dt kind six o clock when multiple colours lined vertically suddenly appears and a funny sound comes up. Then national anthem will be sang......

Aitee1:
Happy new year!

same to u dearie. Aba ke Uyo?

I will not eat until i see BOSCH phone here. Good old days.

Funny enof some ppl stil use dese fones now esp d nokia phones. These phones re also an example of nothing is permanent in life, change iz constant. D same way I'll be able to afford ma dream G- wagon someday

Andykruiz:
same to u dearie. Aba ke Uyo?

No

Back den

I remember my Nokia 9communicatorator my girlfriend dare not play with it lol

Wapking 2018 latest complete collection

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Explorers:
14. Sony Ericsson K750.

This phone for me was money well spent. Chai