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I was more fortunate when I attempted it. The thing did not even connect at all, so I lost NOTHING. I however visited the Vactive WAP portal via Glo. Not bad, but nothing very exciting either.

What is the url for vactive?
Why are V subs not allowed some "free" browsing period?
I thot they were using GPRS?

Vmobile rushed and is failing again....

I await M-TEL GPRS....

Yes, this is the responce I got from Vmobile, I called the first night and one Ijeoma spoke with me and she said she cant figure out what went wrong, and that I should call back for more info, which I did early this morning around 2am, and one Seun again try to explain thing bit by bit. He said my phone (Sendo SV663) is not among the phone presently on their site, that is the reason why I cannot receive the signal, and I asked him of the crasy bill, he said I would be billed, cos am making use of the dial-up number. I ask him of their billing as per the WAP, he said the billing is the same with the normal call (i.e. 80k p/s) and any downloading (i.e. ringtone, screensaver etc)  costs N100.00 per download. And he advice me to wait till my phone will be among or better still, get another phone.

Hello forum, advice me on what to do next. You can PM me if you dont feel like posting it. Thanks

@cia If you mail them, they normally respond after 3 days. vmobile customer care email is customercare@vmobile-nigeria.com while MTN is customercare@mtnonline.com thanks

Aya, you've used the Vmobile csd as you said. how much do they charge for it?

@mamba: Ijebu Still looking for that cheaper alternative to Glo GPRS WAP!

Apologies to all Egbas, my madam inclusive

But it does not look like  your redemption will be found with Vmobile. The current tariff for Vactive are a no-no, and it looks like Voffice is being targeted at corporate (read Contract) users

Last edited by AYA (2005-03-25 02:33:58)

@mamba: I would not count on Mtel if I was you... The tariff may be lower, but what about the Mtel reputation for low Quality Of Service? You may have to contend with that.

But then God uses the weak things of this world to confound the strong

@lucky: I have used it consistently, and it works well. My wife is on V and I pick up her phone every now and then for some fun.

There's not been once it failed to connect or I was billed without browsing.

You may need to look at your settings again. At times, its just one little slip that creates the scenario you have experienced.

But again, it could be that the settings are correct and V is messing you up.

Last edited by AYA (2005-03-26 02:18:28)

@GP: I don't think luck had anything to do with it My wife's line is yet to be over-billed once since I've been playing with Vative on it.

Some phones are harder to configure than others. Usually, the problem will be from one insignificant-looking menu option that no-one paid attention to.

I make use of my friend phone to download the OTA configuration, and in no time we received the config. Saved it and started downloading in no time. The phone is Nokia 6600, I think is only Nokia tthat works with Vactive. I have tried all my possible best to connect my Sendo SV663. All is Zero.

AYA, I was able to use WAP 2.0 on a Nokia phone which did not allow me to choose the WAP port.  I was able to browse with WAP 2.0 on Vactive (Is Vactive the name of the portal or the service?).  If your phone does not support WAP 2.0 it won't work.

Shallar1, keep trying with the Sendo phone!  You need to understand the manual settings and apply them to your phone.

hi! i just heard about this and it looks like a good way to share knowledge and experiences. Lekanhood, what type of handset do you use? i must say that Seun and AYA are extremely knowledgeable in this field as most of their responses are accurate. i understand that Vmobile does not charge you when you connect to their Vactive site but you will be charged if you download any content or if you browse another site using your connection. i also understand that, at the moment Vmobile is not offering GPRS but CSD connection. from what i know, a CSD connection may take longer but not so that it would be noticeable however various factors come into play e.g. network congestion, location, anyhthing that may affect a normal call from being made (since CSD is actually a voice channel used to transfer data)