It was the boundless joy when two GSM operators in Nigeria has great presence announced in August 2001.The operators have received approval to commence operations to revive the economy. MTN and Econet Zain now has been the main players, that Nigeria’s leading GSM operator in order. People a sigh of relief that the sector has been dominated since, or monopolized by the National Telecommunications (NITEL) system was broken for good.
Econet was to take the first time in operation, that in August 2001, the development of Nigeria, one of the first countries on the continent, joining the rapidly changing telecommunications market elites at the time. In the last part of the same year, MTN also begins operation paves the way for competition. With a cell phone was back in those days as a private jet, it was indeed a luxury. The unbearable cost of his mobile phone and network lines, mobile phone thieves or robbers on the alert. The display of the handset by rich enough to send a poor man to his untimely death in frustration.
Call for a minute higher than 50naira, a network line, more than 30,000 Naira and the handset 20 000 Naira was about 35 cents U.S. $ 200 and $ 135 and measured by these figures, ‘m sure everyone will agree with me that they actually on the high side, which makes a germ in the hands of the rich. A country where the minimum wage at about $ 60 per month, so it was more like the flight of the day.
Both players were busy smiling to their banks, their customers money with impunity innocent despite the terrible, the bizarre and embarrassing service provided by these operators, but since it has no appropriate structures were fixed by the competent authorities that they are going about their normal has established life with little or no concern for customer satisfaction.
There are nine years later the memory lane, it is interesting that we have nearly twenty of them around today. The average person would think that to many of them, it will generate competition, the prompt is stricter better services and cheaper fares. Unfortunately, the opposite is the case.A great comparison in terms of workload between Nigeria and other African countries in a filthy mood right. Take Ghana and Nigeria, for example, that I lived in both countries, I can clearly as a fact, with little or no errors in my analysis.The differences in fees between the two countries is in terms of big money.
It is interesting to note that it is much cheaper in other networks or even in Ghana, Nigeria call calls a phone call to a network in Nigeria, and even less to other networks or on international phone calls, the development does not leave the poor in absolute poverty. It saddens my heart that the authorities very much aware of this unfortunate incident, but they are less affected as they buy the money “cards charge or minutes,” Who cares.
To make matters worse, her conscience has long been bought by some of these companies, the development that must be submitted dolls. Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa, with 150million people that set it apart from other nations that will benefit more people are on different networks in comparison to other countries with less population. This means more money for GSM operators. In addition, most affordable services that make more money in their hands, because there is the average person the opportunity or the possibility of their services.He is working in China, Ethiopia, the United Nations second most populous country, so why not to work in Nigeria.
The public has a lot of advantages if’m still shocked that so far they do not take advantage of these opportunities. Unfortunately, the operators know exactly what they are doing, but no one as they check their excesses, have to keep up with their lullaby. They attribute their frivolous charges to all sorts of lame excuses, like, pay a lot of money before their licenses were granted, lack of basic infrastructure such as food. You begin to wonder what went wrong in the management of these companies, they have all the other possible options to fill gaps in the power supply if there is one. The majority of the population is one of the main advantages they have, but they prefer to move away from the obvious truth.
Nigeria is not the only country without a regular diet, but you will all agree with me that the costs in other countries much cheaper than what obtained in Nigeria. Ghana is only 22 million people in the population and the only difference between the two countries is that Ghana can boast of regular feeding, so what other excuse they give us? It’s disgusting.
The most annoying of these practices is that they are different ways to make people from their hard money through a series of fake money making scam called “promotion have lift”. They inject some delicious gifts for misleading the public innocent. I have seen people win invest their savings in such companies, some of these prices, but at the end of the day, it was a futile exercise. The management of these companies should be reviewed because they are gradually depart from you, the original mission. Imagine a company a license to operate a telecommunications company to lobby in financial practices, if not a financial institution.
It will be interesting to note that at 100,000 messages, which generates the special code for these actions occur, they would be spending on the dummy packages, so imagine 2 million people to send messages to the same code, a very annoying high fixed prices, it’s really sad.Instead of channeling that energy into better services, they tend to their clients more stressed already overstretched.
