Comments on: What’s up with MTN mobile internet? http://www.mobilitynigeria.com/2009/11/02/whats-up-with-mtn-mobile-internet/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:25:45 +0000 hourly 1 By: Yom http://www.mobilitynigeria.com/2009/11/02/whats-up-with-mtn-mobile-internet/#comment-2134 Yom Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:12:25 +0000 http://www.mobilitynigeria.com/?p=2105#comment-2134 Something from the archives: <a href="http://www.mobilitynigeria.com/2009/02/12/the-mtn-and-nokia-conspiracy-why-me/" rel="nofollow">The MTN and Nokia Conspiracy – Why Me?</a> Something from the archives: The MTN and Nokia Conspiracy – Why Me?

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Has anyone ever attempted dragging these goats to court? This do as you like business in Naija is really killing us slowly and that’s a fact.

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Such email verification is not built into WordPress, and I do not know of any plugin that provides the functionality. The only other way to enforce email verification is to require that users register before they can submit comments. Unfortunately, that usually drives people away.

PS: I modified the email addresses in your comment above to protect you from SPAM.

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Since the error was not detected, it shows the email addresses are not validated. Would it not be a home idea to automatically validated as part of the consideration for comment publishing?) . Something similar to what http://verify-email.org/ offers..

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True. I came to that conclusion too years ago. At any point in time, I have standby options, usually pre-paid mobile networks options, because of the ease of deployment (load airtime – activate – use – store away when done).

It is a crazy scenario. Really crazy.

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I have had my heartbreaks trying to determine just which ISP to flow with, but the experience of a friend (which is typical) is illustrative:

How do you explain a situation where you pay for a bandwidth and you are continually
being short-changed. This cuts accross all platforms. From VSAT to the so narrow
Broad-bands, WiMAX and dial-ups. All of them are guilty. From the full ISPs to the GSM and CDMA operators, I have not seen any of them that is not guilty of this.

The last time I subscribed for MTN 1 month 24/7 slot, I only used it for 3 days before (as they announced on radio) their fiber optic cable was damaged during Lekki road
construction. Nothing was done.

Zain removed my sim from their network with 1 month of legitimate subscription on it. I only used it once. No solution.

I’ve been using DOPC WiMAX. It is supposed to be 24/7 but it works only in the night. There was a time it did not work at all for 3 weeks.

This are only my personal experiences. If I start writing that of my clients (on the
corporate level, including VSAT deals) I’ll write a book.

You can sense the anger and frustration…

Like I stated above, the solution is to get your connection and get your work done by using any ISP that works @ any particular moment, by whatever means..

We pray we get there one day (in terms of sterling internet connectivity)

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