Mobile Nigeria Forum

I agree with QUAM. Unfortunately, Intercellular is also a little slow when it comes to deploying innovations, like mobile data as Reltel and Multi-links are already doing.

QUAM,

You know why I love you?  You are ready to express and promote your opinions even when the facts are not (yet) available.  You must be a business owner, or at least a salesman of some sort!  I'd like to see how this thread will end: Will QUAM come up with information about Intercellular's mobile data service?  Stay tuned!

I will post the information, once I receive more information on their mobile data service, but I am pretty sure they do.

seun wrote:

QUAM,

You know why I love you?  You are ready to express and promote your opinions even when the facts are not (yet) available.  You must be a business owner, or at least a salesman of some sort!  I'd like to see how this thread will end: Will QUAM come up with information about Intercellular's mobile data service?  Stay tuned!

I will post the information, once I receive more information on their mobile data service, but I am pretty sure they do.

You guessed right, I am a business owner, I will definetly post the information once I receive it, so stay tuned.

axeprince: Are you trolling?  We bother with CDMA networks because their Internet plans are so cheap and flexible when compared to GPRS.  I use the Multilinks service and I download music, lots of software, etc.  I don't have to worry about how many 'kilobytes' I have used up.

AYA wrote:

That may change if the GPRS networks adopt the flat monthly fee model that the CDMA guys are using now.

GPRS networks? There is only one!  The others might take years for all we know.  Glo is not going to adopt a flat fee model for GPRS.  It is in their interest to make as much money as possible from mobile phone users, who for some reason are accustomed to paying more than Internet/PC users for the same services.  Have you ever wondered why ringtones for phones often more expensive than MP3 files on legal music download sites?

SO GPRS would always be more expensive.  That's part of the price you pay for your mobility!

GPRS operators worldwide hardly implement a flat monthly fee for internet access. This is for purely technical reasons, in most cases. GPRS data shares the same channel as voice. Unfortunately, voice has priority over data with GPRS.

Now, if the GSM operators allowed everyone full internet access at a flat rate, most people would be online, and remain online. This would promptly soak up the little available bandwidth and would affect the quality of service on the network at that particular time. Both voice and data would be affected.

Today in Nigeria, call quality are poor enough as they are. Need we overwhelm the available infrastructure with such heavy traffic as full access to GRPS would demand?

By billing you for the bandwidth you consume, the network operator would know that you would use the bandwidth sensibly (economically) and their network would not be 'choked'.

By offering flat rates, they would 'make more money', but this is technically not feasible.

The only network in the world, as far as I know, that offers flat monthly rate for GPRS is T-Mobile in the USA.

Therefore, you folks should stop fantasizing about having a flat monthly rate for GPRS access. The only possible solution is a lower rate for the power users, though they'd still be billed per Megabyte (MB).

So long...