| MrDoGood(m): 3:12pm On May 13 |
MufasaLion:
Boycott MTN? Nigerians don't have other options. MTN is still the best among the rest. It will be difficult for Nigerians to boycott.
When we switch to Glo and Etisalat, you will understand better. Best in what way?
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| MufasaLion: 3:12pm On May 13 |
ALLNIGERIANSMAD:
you are right, glo will just go off for one month, you will have 50GB but you won't be able to open NL. Airtel will just swallow all your credit without making any calls. As worse as MTN is, they remain the best in Nigeria oh
Absolutely. MTN gives the value for your money. Nigerians hare ability hence the reason they complain about data consumption. They use data for porn and other stuff and then come online to make noise.
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| UkoAnnang(m): 3:12pm On May 13 |
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| zoedew: 3:14pm On May 13 |
danzaki63:
They will use money they make in NIgeria to subsidize South African people. If the dont offer Nigerians the same packages we should start considering a boycott of MTN.
What have we done for ourselves? Corruption is the bane of Nigeria especially the Blackman www
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| mrkings84(m): 3:15pm On May 13 |
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When that same phone lands finally in Nigeria it will still cost around 100k naira
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| haybhi1(m): 3:15pm On May 13 |
owobokiri:
Keep consoling yourself..
In the end, you will be outsmarted and outhustled even in your own village by the same people..
If it helps you to sleep easy, keep shouting "fake fake fake" from morning till night whenever you see an igbo man. That changes nada...
k 
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| MufasaLion: 3:16pm On May 13 |
MrDoGood:
When we switch to Glo and Etisalat, you will understand better. Best in what way?
If you had been using that Glo, this your comment would have taken ages to be posted. And if you had used Etisalat, Jesus would have been back before you ever get network connection.
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| alizma: 3:21pm On May 13 |
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They are just about to hand over 1.2m bombs to the citizens.
A smartphone below 10, 000 Naira?
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| Frezhkid10(m): 3:24pm On May 13 |
DeeScan:
Already did .. Glo is now my preferred network..
Come Badagry here..your Glo line fit dy emergency for 3days straight
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| Zico5(m): 3:24pm On May 13 |
danzaki63:
They will use money they make in NIgeria to subsidize South African people. If the dont offer Nigerians the same packages we should start considering a boycott of MTN.
They are making life comfortable for their masses there while the government here keep ing them to make life unbearable for the masses. Despite all these some guys on Nairaland are still praising the government.
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| Mohisah: 3:25pm On May 13 |
MufasaLion:
Boycott MTN? Nigerians don't have other options. MTN is still the best among the rest. It will be difficult for Nigerians to boycott.
Mtn is still better compared to the others. My glo & airtel competed for full day without service.. Next tin ws sorry
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| Emmanuel900(m): 3:26pm On May 13 |
silibaba:
If na ibo man get glo, I sure say by now mtn for don pack up.
The question you should ask is why Ibo can't get something like GLO
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| DeeScan: 3:26pm On May 13 |
Frezhkid10:
Come Badagry here..your Glo line fit dy emergency for 3days straight
oh boy ..
How glo never upgrade needs to be studied...
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| MrDoGood(m): 3:26pm On May 13 |
MufasaLion:
If you had been using that Glo, this your comment would have taken ages to be posted. And if you had used Etisalat, Jesus would have been back before you ever get network connection.
When data connection were down sometime last year, Etisalat and Glo were still running at least. I'm still using MTN because it's my first like. Most people call my Etisalat these days cos the MTN has been off for months. My WhatsApp too is Etisalat. Data is Etisalat and Airtel. Glo for my home network just connected to my tv for streaming and other home devices as well
I will soon deactivate all SMS alert from my s. That's the only place MTN is relevant. But the aim is down
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| correctguy101(m): 3:29pm On May 13 |
danzaki63:
They will use money they make in NIgeria to subsidize South African people. If the dont offer Nigerians the same packages we should start considering a boycott of MTN.
Yes o...
I you my brother. Problem be say since wey I begin use phone since 1904 I never use MTN..
Èmì ó tí lò rí...
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| fabolouz1(m): 3:40pm On May 13 |
danzaki63:
They will use money they make in NIgeria to subsidize South African people. If the dont offer Nigerians the same packages we should start considering a boycott of MTN.
speak for yourself.
Glo a wholly owned Nigeria company is so terrible and spend her profits on useless adverts rather than update their infrastructures.
Mtn is far far the best network in Nigeria.
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| spiSeyi: 3:42pm On May 13 |
danzaki63:
They will use money they make in NIgeria to subsidize South African people. If the dont offer Nigerians the same packages we should start considering a boycott of MTN.
Don't be too emotional Nigeria VAT, Telecoms tax and import duty plus the operation cost considering the cost of diesel are on the high side whereby SA VAT, import duty are not much and they don't need much diesel to run their operation in SA. Blame the FG for this and btwn what is stopping Glo from doing the same
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| Omalicious1: 3:43pm On May 13 |
RandDigital:
MTN South Africa plans to offer 4G smartphones that cost from 99 rands ($5.4) to 1.2 million of its prepaid customers as part of work to shift the country from older 2G and 3G technologies.
The initiative will be executed in three phases commencing in May 2025 until the end of 2026, MTN said in a statement on Monday. One of the conditions for receiving the device is that it can only be used with an MTN Sim card.
“In phase 1, over 5000 carefully selected customers will be offered 4G smartphones. The selection will be based on usage profiles, spending patterns and tenure, and will mainly be in Gauteng province (around Johannesburg and Pretoria),” the company said.
“In phase 2, more than 130 000 customers nationally will be offered the devices. In the third phase, more than 1.1 million MTN customers across the country will benefit.”
The devices will come pre-loaded with a variety of applications. MTN didn’t say if WhatsApp — the de facto messaging app owned by Meta Platforms and used by millions of South Africans daily — was among them.
MTN South Africa CEO Charles Molapisi said: “Regardless of where they live, we want to ensure that all South Africans can access the digital world.”
MTN has partnered with Smartphone For All, founded by Babatunde Osho, a former CEO of Metrofile Nigeria who also served as chief enterprise solutions executive at MTN Nigeria. Osho holds an MBA from Imperial College Management School and an MSc from the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has also completed executive programmes at Wharton Business School, Oxford Said Business School and IMD Business School.
DRIVING DOWN COSTS
The company told TechCentral that the low-cost 4G devices won’t be limited to one model — a variety of smartphones will be offered through the initiative.
For phase 1, MTN is distributing a 5.5-inch model from Itel, though it hasn’t provided the exact device details.
The move by MTN comes six months after rival Vodacom South Africa announced it was introducing a 4G “smartphone” for R249 ($13).
The Mobicel S4-branded phone, which Vodacom described as a “cloud-based handset”, was introduced to “reduce the cost of smartphone access in the country” and to migrate more of the operator’s customers to 4G.
“The cloud phone will help customers still anchored to 2G phones and not familiar with the touch-screen experience, allowing them to appreciate a smooth transition to the data and application world,” said Davide Tacchino, managing executive for terminals at Vodacom South Africa in a statement at the time.
South Africa’s mobile operators are under pressure to migrate legacy 2G and 3G s to more modern technology so the spectrum can be freed up for more advanced technologies, including 4G and 5G.
Vodacom last year cited a 2022 Vodafone-funded report by the Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development in 2022, which argued that lowering the cost of devices was key to increasing access to smartphones.
“The Alliance for Affordable Internet estimates that a smartphone priced at US$62 could cost almost 63% of the average monthly income across Africa. The Broadband Commission’s report recommended that so-called thin-client phones – like the new cloud-based phone which Vodacom has delivered – should be explored. The new cloud-based phone leverages the power of cloud computing to deliver a range of features typically associated with entry smartphones at a more affordable cost.”
They should also consider Nigerians too...
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| spiSeyi: 3:45pm On May 13 |
Omalicious1:
They should also consider Nigerians too...
Wetin our own glo done do for us  and they make more money than others because Glo owns most of the subsea cable systems that are being used by most Telecoms in West Africa. Pa Adenuga should be doing this
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| ProudlyLagos: 3:47pm On May 13 |
silibaba:
If na ibo man get glo, I sure say by now mtn for don pack up.
 here we go again……typical online chest beating of a gorilla tribe 
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| tiswell(m): 3:58pm On May 13 |
danzaki63:
They will use money they make in NIgeria to subsidize South African people. If the dont offer Nigerians the same packages we should start considering a boycott of MTN.
You and your boycott plans are on your own.
Nigerians deserve whatever they are served
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| lexy2014: 4:00pm On May 13 |
danzaki63:
They will use money they make in NIgeria to subsidize South African people. If the dont offer Nigerians the same packages we should start considering a boycott of MTN.
who are the "we"?
how many politicians have you "boycotted"?
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| Love800(m): 4:06pm On May 13 |
What you are saying is that this phone is way of marketing mtn more. Abi?
mactoni91:
MTN, like many telecom companies, operates on a service-based revenue model, where the real profit comes from recurring usage, not the one-time sale of hardware like modems or SIM cards.
Selling cheap or even free devices is a customer acquisition tactic. the goal is to get s onto their network. Once s are in, the revenue flows from data subscriptions, voice calls, SMS, and value-added services. It’s similar to how printer companies sell printers cheaply but make big profits on ink cartridges.
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| Love800(m): 4:08pm On May 13 |
I know people who are using airtel like as if they can't do with it. They love it like crazy!
ALLNIGERIANSMAD:
you are right, glo will just go off for one month, you will have 50GB but you won't be able to open NL. Airtel will just swallow all your credit without making any calls. As worse as MTN is, they remain the best in Nigeria oh
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| MyExpression(m): 4:12pm On May 13 |
MorataFC:
E M p T y N et
They have contributed little to nothing to Nigeria and Nigerians despite generating enormous huge profit over the years.
But let be real, without strong competitors that can challenge them, they won't consider us.
It may be nothing to you, but they gave out daily 15 Free sms given during COVID-19...for 2/3 months
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| Jaga9ja: 4:26pm On May 13 |
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such a phone can never be Smart
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| sylve11: 4:45pm On May 13 |
MufasaLion:
Right. Many businesses rely on the reliability of MTN network. I understand some businesses use other network providers for data services but none can touch MTN in of reliability, and that's what people need.
No network comes close. MTN is ahead of them all. 
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| Menclothing1: 4:54pm On May 13 |
silibaba:
If na ibo man get glo, I sure say by now mtn for don pack up.
What stop any tribe from
Opening one
As innoson motor Dey even GAc sell
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| valentineuwakwe(m): 5:27pm On May 13 |
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When will they make it happen in naija too?
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| Engen(m): 7:17pm On May 13 |
silibaba:
If na ibo man get glo, I sure say by now mtn for don pack up.
what does this even mean?
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