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ucik06
Joined: Jan 30, 2006
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Senisho,
thanks! I ve already sent my previous post before I saw yours.
I dont think that any lecture can hold at this exam period.
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Senisho
Joined: Nov 02, 2005
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From: Lagos, Nigeria
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@ucik60, thanx. I just dey fear make I no miss any lecture bcos of limited tym. |
abubakar
Joined: Sep 15, 2005
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@Ambyzown: No vex!! thet refuse to give us gprs in maiduguri and Starcomms hasnt started giving data service so its only when i'm at a cafe that i can chip in. Back to our plan off bringing down MTN........ (na joke i joke o!!!!!!!)
Im surprised CAF gist hasnt flooded the thread. (not that i'm a football fan, mind you) |
Senisho
Joined: Nov 02, 2005
Posts: 53
From: Lagos, Nigeria
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Soccer? Yuke!! hate it, don't watch d dang sport. Not 2 talk about CAF, sumbody get me a bucket...@*....#%..... too late, I already puked  |
OluYom
Joined: Oct 27, 2004
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@abubakar: I am certainly no football fan myself. Hopefully, you and I are in the same league (no pun intended!) 
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ucik06
Joined: Jan 30, 2006
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From: Lagos,
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Senisho,
Its ok.I advise that you keep in touch.Find out who your course adviser is,introduce yourself and ask questions.100/200 levels are due to write exams in March.Unilag is capable of pulling unexpected strings at all times.Today,the paper we wrote yesterday was canalled & we have to repeat it next week.Such is Lag.
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ambyzown
Joined: May 11, 2005
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From: Lagos-Nigeria
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On 2006-02-02 14:28:23, abubakar wrote:
Im surprised CAF gist hasnt flooded the thread. (not that i'm a football fan, mind you)
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Ihe is out of the country and mamba is busy with school, thats why the board is silent on CAN 
I knew u were joking about the MTN stuff, just testing the grounds eh?
For Mikky and all those writing exams, I wish you all brillant successes in ur papers.
To all proponents of cdma, I hope u'll understand my scepticism and lack of confidence in Nigerian PTO's.
I have lost a lot of money to them, and I'm still smarting from the experience. I still have my multilinks nortel box which cost me N157,000 in 1998 (it stopped working eons ago), an abandoned nitel line I paid N104,000 for in 1999, A GTE line that has not worked in 11 months and cost me N67,000 in 2000 and two intercellular lines which I hardly use these days. On the contrary, I'm finding it hard to decide which of my GSM lines to drop.
I'm not against the technology (cdma), but the management of that technology. I'm carefully observing starcomms, I may decide to opt for a mobile wireless cdma line as a data service alternative when gprs is no longer free.
But until then, I'm keeping my fingers wrapped around my gsm phone. |
OluYom
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@amby: Wow! Over 300,000 naira down the pipe!! You have tried. I dont wonder at your scepticism.
Just the same, things are changing, in part because of the competition that the GSM boys created.
As an unbiased user giving advice to someone considering CDMA data, my experience plus general feedback from others is that while CDMA internet access works well most of the time (and delivers faster speed on the whole), one GPRS internet network out-performs them in stability and reliability: GloMobile. MTN, Vee & Mtel GPRS are crap in comparison.
BTW, most Starcomms data users will find it near impossible to send out mails via POP/IMAP because Starcomm's mail servers appear to have been blacklisted by gazillions of service providers.
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ambyzown
Joined: May 11, 2005
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From: Lagos-Nigeria
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Yes aya, I noticed that bit with starcomms internet. I also noticed it on Intercellular sometime in November, but that problem seems to have been sorted out. On the instability of cdma data service, its to be expected, and I can live with that, as the advantage of unlimited downloads outweighs the gprs option. Undoubtedly, glo gprs is most reliable, but you have to take into consideration the fact that they deployed first, and so already know what to do, coupled with their service not being free, it is bound to be less congested.
Lets do this comparism again in say four months, when MTN and Vmobile have settled down.
But that won't stop me from saying that Vmobile gprs right now is trash. They are my favorite network, but their gprs is baaaaad. |
johnbendi
Joined: Nov 29, 2005
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ucik, nwodu. welcome 2 PNF. Hope u find what u r lookin 4, cos i did.
2 those @ lag, most specially mikky, i wish flying colors. was in lag 4 some time & can say its a great place.
@all: tendering my apologies 4 being so passive on issues around our forum. sometimes its beta 2 not say anything when u have nothing 2 say.
but i always have plenty ofquestion 2 ask. |
Areafada
Joined: Nov 06, 2004
Posts: 6
From: Lagos, Nigeria
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ave u guys seen the danish mohammed cartoon? man o man the editor has got some guts.
see it on the followin sites
http://religion.info/english/articles/article_222.shtml
http://tagcentral.net/?tag=FreeSpeech |
ucik06
Joined: Jan 30, 2006
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Johnbendi,
thanks!
Mikky,
Its a pleasure meeting you on this forum.
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coolapostle
Joined: Oct 15, 2004
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From: Abuja, Nigeria
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Welcome to all the new Guys! And we need mo babes!
Some past events:
- I lost a Cousin in an auto crash...  Had to travel to my hometown twice last week.
- Glo has hit 5 million subscribers. Clearly #2 now.
Some upcoming events:
- Glo's Town Houses are up for grabs. Activate a Glo line!
- A Total Eclipse will happen in Naija on the 29th of March. More details later.
- Another GSM Boycott is being planned in February. Again more details later.
"Coolapostle reporting... for PNF News!"
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OluYom
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On 2006-02-04 00:20:27, coolapostle wrote:
And we need mo babes!
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I tire for you o!
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Sorry about that. My condolences.
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They've been #2 since around mid-2005, though Vee die-hards refused to accept that fact. But NCC's statistics corroborate that. Up Glo!
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So? Some of us have been boycotting for a while now - by opting for CDMA mobiles. People should just do the same rather than boycott for one or two days and then go back to using them! My method is more effective: I use Starcomms as my regular mobile, and resort to GSM for those trips outside Lagos (like once a year  ).
I save money; the CDMA guys make money; GSM guys lose money.
As you may know, I don't have a problem with technology (I use all and any technology as it serves my purposes), but where the operators begin to act against my interests (in this case, the GSM guys had me and my contacts spending way too much to speak to ourselves), I walk away.
Here's what I say to Nigerian consumers: Learn to "vote" with your money!
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ucik06
Joined: Jan 30, 2006
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Coolapostle,I thank you for the welcome even though you aren't well pleased by the fact that I am a guy.
Accept my sympathy over your late cousin.
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