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This is a nice idea. Thanks for sharing.

Acting Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Mtel, Ladi Williams, announced today that with the loyalty package, subscribers can now make unlimited free calls and send free text message within the Mtel network in a rebound move by the company and as “a way of giving back to its customers for their undiluted passion for the Mtel brand”, in a statement to Technology Times.

http://www.technologytimesng.com/post/mtel-moves-to-regain-lost-market--offers-free-calls--text-messaging

Unlimited phone calls and text will definitely make their unreliable network more reliable. What a brilliant idea!

A Nigerian company known as "Galaxy Backbone Plc Interstella Communications Limited", a licensee for the Internet Exchange Point, is suing the government of Nigeria for not allowing them to monopolize the Internet. They want all the Internet traffic in this country to flow through the so-called Internet Exchange Point and be controlled by them alone:

Umuahia. October 21, 2007. The Office of the National Security Adviser has intervened to broker peace in another landmark row over control of Nigeria 's Internet space that has pitted Interstella Communications Limited, a licensee for Internet Exchange Point (IXP) against the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), the telecoms regulator, over the former's bid to be the exclusive carrier of Internet traffic in the country.

Interstella is claiming N10 billion in a landmark suit filed against NCC and other government agencies including the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Nigeria Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) and Galaxy Backbone Plc over alleged breach of service exclusivity granted the company.

Source: http://www.technologytimesng.com/post/nsa-intervenes-in-row-over-nigeria-s-internet-exchange-point

This is unbelievable stupid, but if the government is stupid enough to bow to their demand:
- Any time their network is down, the Internet will be unavailable throughout Nigeria.
- Nigeria will be like China with no more free access to information. A big brother nation:
- Any website they block will be blocked throughout the country. E.g. political opponents, competitors, etc.
- The total bandwidth available throughout the country will be the bandwidth available at the exchange.
- In a short time, they can begin to block popular websites unless the owners pay them some money.

It's unbelievably stupid because the whole idea of the Internet is that there is no "exclusive carrier of Internet traffic" except in brutal police states like China and sharia countries. The Internet is designed to be reliable through redundancy. If a router goes down, you can route around it. If your ISP is down, you can go to a cyber-cafe and access the net through a VSAT. Or you can go through a different ISP. If MTN GPRS has problems, you can try Glo. Now imagine all ISPs having to route their US or UK-bound traffic through one Nigerian network. Horrible idea!

As a webmaster whose daily bread depends on the vibrancy of the Nigerian Internet Service Industry, this idea is a really bad nightmare. It means that as a webmaster you can lose all your traffic forever if you have a quarrel with an employee of the Internet Exchange Point. Or if you speak against them in any way. Absolute power corrupts.

One of the beautiful things about the Internet is that nobody is absolutely in control. Because of this, competition is fierce and there is rapid progress. These people are enemies of progress, and they must be stopped. If they want us to use their Internet Exchance Point, let them provide us with a compelling reason to do so. I have been a subscriber of an ISP for several years, and it was not by force. It was because I saw value in them. Thanks a million.

Pictures? before we start stressing ourselves going here and there just show us the picture.

Bush is a much better 'comedian' than the two of them combined. Well at least his own term in office will soon expire.

Hmmm. why not just try the experiment with videos, since that's what we're talking about?

And there is: http://www.adamwilt.com/pix-codecs.html

I agree, but I think even 12 naira per kw/hr is rather low. Just privatise this thing, please. We need 24x7 power.

Unemployment is a symptom of inefficiency and inflexibility in the labor market. For every graduate in Yoruba that can't find a job, there is an employer who can't find a French-speaker. For every secretary that can't find a job, there is an oil company that has to employ engineers from abroad. The problem is not that jobs are unavailable. The problem is that the jobs people are looking for are not the jobs that are available. The problem is lack of training.

Heh. You're trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist. Pathetic. The truth is that you're a terrible friend.

It seems as if you only sell houses. What about rental?

The two of you need to learn the difference between naira and dollar. They are not the same thing.

That doesn't matter. Even if you recompress over and over again at the same bitrate, you'll lose some information.
Even DV, a so-called "almost lossless" codec, shows degradation when you recompress over and over again.
The smartest thing is to keep the video in its original form unless you need to make it smaller.

Eyah.

Wet dreams are not harmful, so it doesn't matter whether it's "normal" or not. Dreams can't be controlled or explained.

anybody that does not want it can change to HiTV/FSTV/Trend TV e.t.c

Or they can just change the * channel. How hard can that be?

By comparing them with HiTV, we are acknowledging them as a serious alternative.
And that's good for them. On the long run, all publicity is good publicity. Obscurity is bad.

You must post a link to the page you copied this from, sir.

This has nothing to do with Ofunneka.

http://www.actingbiz.com/articles/ Over 50 articles on every aspect of acting, though from an American point of view.

What rights were trampled upon?

@empee: where are you located?

The Witchcraft is the Nigerian equivalent of science fiction in Hollywood movies. It's just a popular fantasy.

What I'm saying is that we don't have to rely on HiTV alone. HiTV alone cannot represent Nigeria. We need more, more!

im a girl that gets alot of advances from men

Just so you know, every outgoing/loose young girl gets a lot of advances from men. Once you grow older, it will stop.

I wish they would pay the same attention to the content of their shows. But the graphics are really cool, I must say.

Yes, I am. I'm making a sitcom and it's going to be funny as hell. (Although I really need great actors)

What's the nature of the project? There may be a legitimate reason for his inability to offer payment.

Even if we want to ban the aspects of the show that involve nudity, do we really have to ban the entire show?

Offer you a subscription which you can easily sign up for at your own leisure,

And that is precisely what DSTV is. It's a subscription-based service. Are we completely dumb or just intolerant? As a regulator, the only change I might require of DSTV is to activate the parental control service by default.

It turns out that getting great actors is not the picnic I thought
it would be. It's equally challenging to get suitable filming locations.

Any professionals who handle these things in the house? Location managers? Casting agents? I can't do it.

[email][/email] is my email address. Please get in touch and drop your phone number.

I'm a big fan of soft, shadowless lighting. My ideal light source is diffuse sunlight on a cloudy morning. Next to that is soft, shadowless full spectrum fluorescent lighting. I love the way both male and female models looks under soft light.

But I can't seem to lay my hands on a good movie light. The 'best' lights I've found so far are 80W light bulbs, but they are (1) Quite hard and (2) Consume too much power for the light they produce (NEPA!). Meanwhile, I can't find any daylight-balanced fluorescents anywhere. The fluorescents I can find locally make human skin seem very pale.

What do you suggest? I want a light that is (1) Available in Nigeria (2) Affordable (3) (Potentially) Soft (4) Efficient.