The reviews made here are all quite the same. In my opinion,what counts is location I.e one’s proximity to masts that have 3g or edge services embedded in them. You,the mast installations are handled by differnt companies and varying programming.

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@ Nigeria music;

million dollar question

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When is Glo going to make bandwidth available from GLO-1 cable ?

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Eye bee kay: kindly recomend to me a mobile browser that I can use on a zain data bundle.

Opera mini is out of the equation. My problem with UC web 7 is that i can’t open gmail basic html view. also nairaland displays only wap version.

I’ll prefer a browser that has multi tab, copy and paste features. Compression is also key.

I downloaded sky fire but it dosent connect to network. Bolt and Bolt lite works well but it has less features. The buts are:

1) it takes time to load pages and
2) i find it dificult to access some web pages such as gmail basic html view and nairaland.com web page. I tried different ways to access these views but i end up opening only wap/mobile page.

Please advise me on how to find my around these problems or just recomend another mobile browser that will meet my needs.

I use a nokia e63. Compression, multi-tab, access to wap and web pages, copy and paste are key to me.

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@Archie: It as though Glo now functions only after 12 midnight cos that’s when I notice the service is kind of stable. The thing tire me oh! Surprisingly using this trick the connection seems to be stable.

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Help! glo has gone AWOL. I have had good experience with glo with speeds of 400 -600kbps in the past two months. I am afraid the honeymoon is over before it went to any significant length. Speeds are less than 5kbps. It takes forever to open even normally fast and lean sites like google.com. Its ssoooooooo frustrating. MTN 3.5G has just activated its service around my corner of Abuja. The speeds are good sometimes although very patchy. just got 1.02mbps this evening. Yesterday it was not even connecting!

Glo is a big disappointed. All this hype about Glo1 landing in Lagos was over blown. Main one also landed its cable in Lagos but better managed the event. They told us their service will be up and running in June 2010. Glo made theirs sounds as though the cable landing was Nigeria’s digital nirvana. This is definitely not the case.

Why are efficient services in Nigeria so difficult to come by? Even when the will and resources are there. Are we jinxed as a Nation?

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Hello to everyone in the house,
Please, I need advice on which gsm data service to subscribe to in apapa area. I have been using IPNX modem at home and it is fast(about 50kbps constant download speed) however, I need a mobile device since my ipnx modem is bulky.
Regards.

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@Drixie: I love that pun. (MTN’s internet service is bullshit…. everywhere you go). LMAO.

Thanks for shedding light on this FTP issue cos I have asked around and couldn’t find a solution which is why I subscribed to Etisalat cos it appears GLO has those ports blocked.

Epileptic MTN and Etisalat are the only networks that allow me work on my blog with ease. I will be contacting my web host to see if there’s a way around this.

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drixie,

Good point you raised about CDMA vs GSM with regards free browsing hacks. Yet, our past experience with CDMA internet services were traumatic – in particular Starcomms and Multilinks. But that was years ago. We are still wary though.

We have had an average experience with Zoom (then Reltel), but we are generally a little uneasy with CDMA mobile internet.

Can you share your experiences for our benefit and that of others? Thanks.

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Ahem, I forgot to mention.

For web guys like me, important ports such as FTP and SSH are either blocked or unstable on the GSM networks because these are the major ports through which free browsing software (e.g. Your Freedom) connects to proxy servers.

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