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With growing regulatory and competitive pressure affecting pricing of voice services in Nigeria, mobile operators are responding to the exigencies of the time by reviewing their mobile data strategy in an attempt to offset declining voice revenues, analysts have said. Africa’s mobile Average Revenue Per User (ARPU) has continued to decline by 14 percent year-on-year since 2004. In view of this, mobile operators have stepped up investments in expansion of 3G network coverage this year. Analysts told BusinessDay that telecoms are also placing particular emphasis on bundling smartphones with innovative mobile-data packages as well as engaging content providers to enable users consume locally-relevant services on their devices. These moves, according to them, have become imperative considering recent forecasts which have shown that Nigeria’s vibrant telecommunications market will be essentially driven by mobile data over the next five years. “Voice service re...

It is nothing short of day light robbery that have been happening to Nigerians. Telecommunications industry have decided to favor a set of smartphone users (Blackberry) why robbing other smartphone users (Nokia, iPhone, and Android devices). It is almost like saying its favoritism, serious neglect and siphoning. The telecommunications company do this by giving Blackberry users more internet data size compared to other smartphone users. For example, a BIS subscription of N1000 gets you a minimum of 1GB internet data while the same amount won't even get you 300mb of data.  This is true for all network operators in the country. The question is, Why is there such a data bundle gap between Blackberry users and non Blackberry users?  Is it that they have more customer base than other smartphone users? Is it that Blackberry users  are more important to them than  non-Blackberry users? Considering the fact that most non-Blackberry smartphones even consume more Intern...