MTN Internet’s Quality Of Service Nosedives In 2020 With New Jolly Data Plans

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For years here in Nigeria, we complained about MTN data tariffs not being competitive compared to say Glo. Meanwhile, Glo QoS was mostly crap. In late 2019, MTN stepped up with data tariffs similar to Glo. They introduced the new Jolly Data plans. Guess what has happened: MTN quality of service (QoS) has gone downhill … Read more

Mobile Internet in Nigeria (October 2019): Glo and 9mobile lose subscribers

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MTN remains the largest Internet Service Provider in Nigeria by subscriber numbers. It has 52,163,778 active data subscribers, followed by Airtel with 33,618,035 subscribers, Glo with 28,995,634 subscribers, and 9mobile still straggling with 8,346,229. Globacom has prided itself as the “grandmasters of data” but does not seem to be able to keep up with Airtel … Read more

3G/4G/5G mobile data drains your smartphone’s battery faster than Wi-Fi: Did you know?

It is a technical fact: 3G drains battery faster than Wi-Fi. As such, if you want to conserve battery on your smartphone while enjoying broadband speeds, connect via Wi-Fi. If battery life is more important to you than speed, and you do not have a Wi-Fi hotspot available, change your mobile network connection from 3G … Read more