Whether it be daily, weekly, monthly or yearly?
When you put other factors like data quality into consideration, I think Voice over regular GSM network is cheaper. I currently make calls at #6.6 per minute on Etisalat, and it’s at no cost to my recipient. Contrast this with when making calls over data network which constitutes cost to both parties involved. Unfortunately I don’t have numbers to back up my analysis but I guess you get the gist.
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Yes sir, I get the gist. What about SMS is it cheaper than instant messaging? And out of Airtel, Etisalat, Glo and MTN do you think that Etisalat is the best? Which one has more customers? Which one do people use alot? Thanks for taking the patience and time to reply to my question. I really appreciate it.
No, instant messaging is by far cheaper than SMS, take for example most networks will charge 4 naira per SMS, 1 SMS = 160 bytes, which means with 100 naira, you get 25 * 160 bytes = 4000bytes ~ 4kB. With 100 naira, you can get 10MB of data on most network, assuming symmetry on both recipient and sender, that means you can get 5MB of data for the same value as SMS
Not sure, I’ve been stuck with Glo for about 11 years, I just added Etisalat less than 2 months ago, the major motivation being that I’m like the only Nigerian with a single line. I’m not sure which network has most customers, but my educated guess will be MTN, because they have the widest reach, at least from travels around Nigeria.
I can’t give any figures on this.
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MTN leads in Nigeria with 40%+ market share:
In terms of actual quality, I usually hear that it varies by location/city. I’m in Lagos and have only used MTN & Etisalat and Etisalat has been excellent.
A relevant question for Radar though: MTN currently has their 2015 BetterMe 2.015GB for N2,015 30-day data plan. Does anyone else offer a data plan better than 1GB / N1K with no day/nighttime restrictions)? Thanks
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You said ‘you can get 10MB of data on most network, assuming symmetry on both recipient and sender, that means you can get 5MB of data’, what do you mean by that? Y won’t you get the full 10MB and only get half of it which is 5MB? Thank you for the details once again, it has really clarified alot of things and opened my eyes, but what I don’t understand is if instant messaging is cheaper than SMS, why aren’t more people on the internet? Like I would think that more people will be on the internet just to send an instant message to someone rather than a SMS. Or is it that the average African(Nigerian) doesn’t have enough money to send a SMS or instant messaging? Or is it that many people don’t know about this? Or many people are not interested in sending a SMS or instant messaging? Or many people don’t know how to send a SMS or instant messaging?
Thank you for the infographic and details as well as your time and patience in answering my questions, I really appreciate it but please where did you get this infographic from and is there more so that I won’t be disturbing you back and forth?