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If you’re a Nigerian mobile phone subscriber and you’re dissatisfied with your network provider’s services, you can now finally port to another network provider. This means you can switch from one network to another and retain your phone number and SIM card. We’ve teamed up with other Nigerian tech blogs and we’re carrying out this survey. Please share it as soon as you’re done. If the embedded survey doesn’t work for you, you can also fill the survey here. Don’t forget to share! Thank You.Read More

Etisalat Nigeria has opened up pre-orders for the new BlackBerry Z10. This comes right on the heels of MTN allowing pre-orders for the smartphone. The Etisalat website doesn’t state how much the Z10 would cost, but MTN puts it at N100,000 – cheaper than we expected. Nigeria’s Amazon clone, Jumia is also offering the Z10 for the same price, and is allowing pre-orders with a N20,000 deposit. You can also pre-order the BlackBerry Z10 for N100,000 at authentic dealers & partners between 13th -22nd of February. Purchases come with aRead More

In October last year, Etisalat launched their Gaga smartphone, an affordable 3G Android 2.2 smartphone with features such as a 3.2 megapixel including WiFi and Bluetooth services as well as FM radio and GPS navigation. With all that, customers are guaranteed 20k/sec calls to all networks, four months free data and no access fees. The smartphone, initially priced at ₦19,000, has now been reduced to ₦14,000. The phone is targeted at “undergraduates, young professionals and other data consuming individuals with high 3G expectations” and lets users view and edit WordRead More

Latest statistics from the Nigerian Communications Commision(NCC) show that Nigeria has crossed the 100 million mark in number of active phone lines. Mobile Telcos MTN, Glo, Airtel and Etisalat had 94,273,460 mobile phone lines by the end of Q1 2012. CDMA networks on the other hand split the remainder of the 4,871,553 fixed lines. MTN continues to lead with 42,898,581 active lines within Q1 while Globacom placed second with 20,846,604 active lines. Airtel now places third with 18,600,453 lines while the newest entrant Etisalat can boast of of 11,927,840 activeRead More

Etisalat Group won three GSM Association (GSMA) Global Mobile Awards atlast week’s Mobile World Congress. Etisalat Mobile Baby won two awards in the Best Health Innovation and mWomen Best Mobile Product categories while Etisalat Commerce won the Best Mobile Money Innovation award. Etisalat also announced their completion of a 4G LTE network in the UAE in partnership with Alcatel-Lucent. An MoU was also signed with Microsoft in which the partnership will see Windows Phone devices launch via Etisalat in the Middle East and Africa. Source: IT News AfricaRead More

Etisalat has released a special mobile browser for its users built on Opera Mini. The browser enables mobile users get the browsing experience they’ll get on a PC and is compatible with a wide range of phones. Since its built on Opera Mini, Etisalat’s mobile browser compresses data up to 90 percent. The browser also contains links to information about Etisalat services. To get the browser, SMS ‘YES’ to ‘343’. Etisalat is known for its cheap subscription and pay as you go plans which have helped it increase its userbaseRead More

Etisalat has launched UrFilez in Nigeria; a mobile music streaming service that allows you listen to and discover music. The service also allows you create and share stations like on Last.fm or you can listen to any of the artistes’ stations. UrFilez has over 4,000,000 songs in its library. UrFilez has also been launched in 17 other countries where Etisalat has presence. The service also has partnership with Batelco and Zain. UrFilez is currently available for BlackBerry, iOS and Android. Users can also share their favorite music to social networks.Read More

Etisalat Nigeria recently introduced affordable BlackBerry plans namely, BlackBerry Complete and BlackBerry Social.  They both come as a relief from the regular BlackBerry Internet Service, usually ₦3,000. BlackBerry Complete offers users the following features: web browsing, one “web-based” email account, access to social networks (Facebook and Twitter), Instant Messaging on Yahoo! Messenger, Windows Live Messenger, Google Talk and of course, BlackBerry Messenger (BBM). Users also have access to BlackBerry App World and the ability to set up BlackBerry email with a [email protected] address. BlackBerry Complete goes for ₦1,500 per month.Read More

Etisalat recently launched its Gaga Android smartphone targeted at today’s data consuming youth. The phone runs on Android 2.2, has a 2.8 inch full capacity touch screen, a 3.2 megapixel camera and an accelerometer built in. It also includes WiFi and Bluetooth services as well as FM radio and GPS navigation. You can view and edit documents on the go with its built in document viewer that lets you view and edit Word documents and Excel spreadsheets. It also comes with an 8GB memory card which can hold about 1,600Read More

  Earlier in the week, Etisalat announced an SMS-based bulletin board service. Users will publish and receive status updates via SMS bypassing the need for internet service. These messages are called Dots and users are called Dotters. To get started send an update within a 140-character limit to 8900. Dotters will then receive a message, confirming that the dot was successfully posted. Dots are active for 30days or until they are cancelled. Users of this service can also follow other Dotters. Simply begin your message with a dot ‘.’ alongRead More