Mobile Nigeria Forum

motla wrote:

that e-NNOVATE 2005 is it by any fat chance e-tranzact?

No; it isn't. I expected that e-tranzact would participate in a value-added expo like that, but nope, they didn't.

e-NNOVATE underwhelmed me. Saw little to talk about.

Mtel who have been shouting about laaunching GPRS by late March have shifted it to April. They could not even give a demo of the thing. The mobile base station they brought to MUSON seemed to have developed a mind of its own.... aargh! Na wa!

@motla: Its been quite a while I checked up on e-tranzact last. I think their website is http://etranzact.net or e-tranzact.net. Try .com if the above are not correct.

@coola: My brother, I wonder o! They talked, had a stand, gave out T-shirts, did everything under the sun but the very thing most participants went to see. Nope, no action on GPRS. Mtel signal - like Glo's - was so poor on location you almost couldn't get a call through without having to take a walk (mamba, are you listening?).

I expected Reltel to demonstrate their mobile internet, but they just put those phones & the Pocket PC smartphone on the desk and gazed at us

SaveMyContacts tried to make me buy an MTN line just so I could use their service. But did they demonstrate? To the best of my knowledge, no.

I spoke with an official at the Accelon/Atmospace stand, and he was telling me that all PDAs come with built-in Wi-fi features!! Without thinking, I can reel off a list of PDAs that do NOT have Wi-fi built-in. I stood my ground and he finally admitted that he was wrong. Do they train these guys? Or was he just being an overzealous salesman?

In summary, Monday was gab day. Tuesday was the funeral: the order of a graveyard.

Frankly, I don't think it was Calixthus' fault. He did look rather disappointed himself.

Those exhibiting companies just didn't seem to have their wits together.

Last edited by AYA (2005-03-25 19:34:54)

mamba wrote:

I was placing all my hopes on Mtel Gprs. ...I know they'll come out with the cheapest price whenever...

Mamba, have you considered Quality of Service (QOS)? So far, Mtel has the worst in the country. Cost is not everything, you know.

Everyone wants to own a car, but it costs more to maintain a car than it costs hopping around on bikes and in buses.

I can tell you from experience that pricing is not everything. And if you really need lower costs, migrate to GloDirect/Post-Paid. Or get a CDMA set. My two-kobo.

e-nnovate expo is really about value added services and its not a forum to measure performances of networks.Its all about how subsribers can harness oppurtunities that exist being a mobile subscriber. The public should understand that its a maiden edition and things can only get better.
Aya,savemycontacts dont and will not sell you an MTN pack so that you can subscribe to the wireless phone back up services! Presently it works with Mtn and Vmobile but plans are underway too to have  other networks offering this value added service.