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I hear there is another ownership tussle going on within the Celtel board. With so many distractions, how can the company hope of doing well against a backdrop of competing firms with a stable and vibrant board. Its a miracle they've come this far with so many name changes and subsequent re-branding (By the way, I hear there's another one in the offing)
Free browsing on Celtel 3G???? Well anything's possible.
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Posted: 2008-03-02 19:58:33
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2tek, I have responded. Cheers!
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Posted: 2008-03-02 19:58:51
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I've been expecting to read about someone's comment on Jim Ovia's Visafone. Anyone tried it out yet? What about data? Will they be able to compete against starcomms who recently hit 1,000,000 subscribers?
Your comments please.
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Posted: 2008-03-03 10:48:38
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@all, u all may think i've been absent but i've been with u guys all da way. have we now come to the era of discussing PM's? lol.
someone is enjoying the gist on this forum mates.
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Posted: 2008-03-04 17:48:01
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Demmy is trying to cover up! You have been absent Demmy! I think we should periodically post msgs to our awol elite and see how long (if ever) they reply.
Did i miss any post saying "send AYA a pm and win prizes!"? Ay, im sending mine now. Is there a car on offer?
After long tussles with which phone to buy and which phone dealer could offer a reliable price (fleet comms still dont know how much thier phones go for, really sad!), i my sis finally got the #1 phone for 2008.... The W910! Looking at the phone, im a bit sad i got my P990! Why didnt i wait 6 months! But seriously, its a high contender when get a little loose change in my pocket (and when the price hits sub 40k!)
I finally updated my P990 2 weeks back and after using it with the OG firmware for soooo long i can really tell the difference. The only setback is upon making a backup on my pc, i still lost some of my settings (email, calender, etc) lost all my sms, mms and emails (can get my emails back from my server though) and some multi media files have gone missing! My favourite movie on my phone The Incredibles went awol. Should have transfered it to a mem card. What pains me is i did a lot of fiddling with my AVI converter before i could get it to less than 60mb and still retain good resolution and stereo sound. Any how, i can always do it again.
Celtel might do it again and give out the free 3g. The only altenative is to offer better service, wider coverage and par prices with glo. I was reading a paper when i saw one of glo's 3g adverts when a statement struck me. "unlimited internet access up to 3GB". Will all of u stand up and clap ur hands, give a round of applause for the biggest play on words i have seen in all my years working in the telecomms industry!!! A LIMITED UNLIMITED OFFER! Even if they give u 3TB every day, it is limited. They went too far on that one! I think i will write to some papers complaining about this one.
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Posted: 2008-03-06 15:51:14
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@amby: forgot to answer ur post. With regards to starcomms vs visafone, its gonna be hard for visa. Forget my history with starcomms, the fact that so many of thier phones out thier are simless and supposedly "unreprogrammable", visa would have to pull out all the blocks and give out great phones at cheap prices to wean people off starcomms. The cdma market isnt growing as fast as the gsm market, and hence instead of looking for new subscribers, everyone is looking for the scavenger's bounty.
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Posted: 2008-03-06 16:22:24
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On 2008-03-06 15:51:14, abubakar wrote:
I was reading a paper when i saw one of glo's 3g adverts when a statement struck me. "unlimited internet access up to 3GB". Will all of u stand up and clap ur hands, give a round of applause for the biggest play on words i have seen in all my years working in the telecomms industry!!!
@abu: Well said!
I saw that on the Glo website about 2 weeks ago, and I was just as amazed as you are. Whoever came up with that one needs to see a shrink, or is an outright thief.
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Posted: 2008-03-06 19:36:00
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Someone mentioned Visafone.
I had to visit the Visafone office here in Abuja on my way to Reltel Wireless. I was looking for an "affordable" means of yapping with my new bride while I am in the office. GSM just won't do. My mind was set on Reltel because of the Friends and Families but I wanted to check out Visafone to see if they could offer something better.
Sadly, Visafone didn't impress me. The flashy interior decor (Visa is like Celtel: red, red, red) and super-glossy Flyers were ruined by same-old, uninspiring tariffs. With so many GSM/CDMA players, Visa is coming with nothing new to the table.
Reltel local on-net call tariffs of N6.50/min is 50 percent less than Visafone's N12 /min. That was enough for me. Reltel's cheapest handset went for N2,000 (2 models) while Visafone's cheapest was a Nokia for N7,000. Both had "dual SIM" models. Reltel's had one for 15k and another for 25k while Visa's had only a 25k model.
I know they are just rolling-out and we should give them time. But from what I saw, I think Mr. Ovia is trying to target his usual Zenith Bank elite. Goodluck to him.
Oh, I forgot the Internet tariffs:
Here Reltel Wireless still beats Visafone even though Multi-links has the best internet tariff in Nigeria IMHO.
Here are the tariff plans for All day, Day only, Night only and Weekend surfing
Visa has:
WAP @ 55 kobo /kb
Visa1x (using CDMA 1x) @ 9.5k, 6k, 4.5k, 4.5k
Visa Silver (EVDO up to 150 kbps) @ 12k, 7k, 5.49k, 6k
Visa Gold (EVDO up to 300 kbps) @ 15k, 9.9k, 8.5k, 7k
Visa Platinum (EVDO up to 600 kbps) @ 22k, 15.5k, 12k, 8.5k
Reltel has an odd set of plans:
Weekly @ 2.5k
2 Weeks @ 5k
Monthly @10k
Weekend (Friday 6pm to Monday 8am) @ 3.5k
The Weekly and 2 weeks are all 24 hours.
Ok, I will now take the congratulatory messages. I had a short 3-day honeymoon in Minna. I am back at work. I will let y'all know when the pictures are on Facebook.
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Posted: 2008-03-07 17:03:40
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Hey Coola, Congrats! Wish you guys the best.
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Posted: 2008-03-07 20:52:20
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@Mr. & Mrs. Coola congratulations. I wish u both a happy married life. May u grow old together and have plenty children.
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Posted: 2008-03-07 22:40:16
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