Everybody is releasing “great packages” with both high and low points. It’s just a matter of waiting to see how much this their product can deliver.

So far so good even @ Nairaland, I haven’t heard one good thing about Visafone’s internet service. Let’s hope they’ve been revamped!

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@ Alireta
I dont believe visafone’s claim of 170 ‘towns and cities’. look at their list of ‘towns and cities’ and you will see that city neigbourhoods are listed as towns! So in reality they dont cover much. Besides most towns i travel to are not covered. Etisalat covers them.

MTN and Zain (zain has several blind spots) have coverage from Abuja for the next 700km to my home base. i will go for that any day!

I think CDMA operators dont have the critical mass to offer sustained cheaper services; they are between a rock and a hard place. With limited coverage and slow internet speeds they are losing out to the GSM giants.

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N60,000 for a device that was released 2 years ago? ls Visafone serious? They should find out where Zoom Mobile sources its fairly priced CDMA smartphones.

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Archie,

True, Visafone coverage is limited, but it would seem that its in the same league as Etisalat’s at the moment. Visafone currently has coverage in “over 170 cities and towns across 22 States”.

We have used 1x extensively on Starcomms, Multilinks and Reltel and agree about the speed of the platform. While 1x’s top speed in theory is 153 kbps, we always found it to be unbearably slow. We keep wondering why the CDMA networks let this go on. Give us creepy-crawly GPRS anyday over CDMA 1x.

Anyone have any idea why 1x keeps delivering horrible speeds – apart from over-selling by the networks?

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limited visafone coverage and 1x speed is a drawback.

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