High tariff, poor services

Extract from Telecom E-Review From Cyberschuul News

INDUSTRY WATCH

ANGRY WITH COST AND QUALITY,
NIGERIANS MAY BOYCOTT GSM SERVICES
FOR ONE DAY IN PROTEST

High tariff, poor services, inaccurate billing, and subscriber-care insensitivity on the part of GSM service providers constitute the grouse of mobile phone users in Nigeria and the Association of phone users has asked its member to boycott GSM services on Friday February 17, 2006 in protest. A similar one-day shut down of GSM services was carried out on September 19, 2003 when the only worries were high tariff, bad services and per minute billing. President of National Association of Telecommunications subscribers, NATCOM, Mr Deolu Ogunbanjo said the phenomenal growth in mobile services is not reflective of good service, subscriber-friendly products and reasonable tariff structure. Ogunbanjo’s call for the one-day boycott does not seem known to users outside his fellow activists apparently for reason of local press apathy.

The Vfone is finally here

Last year, I discussed about Vfone though it was yet to be released.

Posters of Vfone are found in virtually all call centres in Lagos; it is a new dawn in the Nation-wide fast growing phone-call business. It is a pay as you use system, no more cheating 'by the seconds' or 'smart playing' of the business owner by the phone operator.

What is Vfone?

Vfone is a customised mobile phone and SIM for phone call operators, a Vmobile Nigeria initiative for easier, hassle-free pay phone operation for better profit.

Click Here to view theVfone documentation. You can also request for quick guide and operators manual.