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| 6 Eras in Nigeria telecom industry |
1.
Freedom VPN era.
In this era you have to be familiar with local host and port 8080, so as
to enable your browser to use it. Even though the free servers are slow (US,
GERMANY, UK), we still manage to use it peacefully and moderately, unless you
have long throat which is when you start paying for basic plan and the rest
just to get more data.
Freedom free plan has 100mb limit per day and you have to open multiple account just to have more time. The telecom company that suffers it most is MTN Nigeria, because most proxies, tweak and port always work on them. Etisalat (now 9mobile) also follow suit but it was not as popular as MTN, while Zain (now Airtel Nigeria) has low tweak at that time.
Freedom free plan has 100mb limit per day and you have to open multiple account just to have more time. The telecom company that suffers it most is MTN Nigeria, because most proxies, tweak and port always work on them. Etisalat (now 9mobile) also follow suit but it was not as popular as MTN, while Zain (now Airtel Nigeria) has low tweak at that time.
It even got to a point that people starts holding radio programs on how
to use Freedom VPN to browse free with any network. Trust Nigerians, they never
miss free opportunity to the extent that our “printing brothers” starts selling
tutorials handbook on free browsing which 90% of the settings are for MTNNigeria.
2.
Opera Mini era.
Nigerians are people who love to push things to its limit when it comes
to free things. Opera mini also get it share of active users with the provision
of custom mod. Those days we have great app mod that create loophole and custom
mod settings and tweak to help you browse for free. I don’t have to say the
name of the telecom company that Opera Mini is heavily used on. But I won’t
forget my favorite opera mini version 4.2 handler fast browsers, fast download
and it can work on many phones mostly (Java, Symbian phone).
Many Nigerians turn to hacker by sourcing for ip address and new loophole
in various network but one thing I know for sure is that “GLO NO TRY AT ALL”,
they are the only network that Opera Mini tweak never work on. It got to point when
we label them stingy network and we were praising MTN Nigeria and 9mobile for
free cheat we get.
This era was the time many Nigerians youth engages in internet for
research, free browsing cheat and how to bypass network firewall. In this era,
many Nigerian youth discovered their skills. Some went into forum, some went
into blog, some became networking expert because we were trying to browse free and also
create a community. Many top Nigeria website are part of this wonderful era.
3.
Python, UC Player and UC Web era.
Do you want to stream online channels? Experience fast download or you
want your entire app in your Symbian phone to work with python? In this era, we
experience advance way of bypassing our internet provider firewall. If your
python is connected, you are free to browse on your phone for free, stream any
channel with UC Player.
In this era, Nigerians starts using UC Browser currently UC Web because it
has fast download process. It got to a point we can use it to power 2go app,
YouTube, WhatsApp, Opera Mini (sis or sisx) and many more. Many python tweak
only work on MTN Nigeria and 9mobile.
4.
Simple Server era.
In our quest to browse for free and very fast, we woke up to see a new
messiah (Simple Server). One of the fastest free browsing tools with less size
(not up to 500kb) and it always come in zip file. Simple server became popular
with its unique configuration settings and its very complicated for a new user
but later understand how it works which also make you smart in tweaking out
free browsing settings. Simple server work with any application on pc and on
mobile, it’s very fast on MTN Nigeria or 9mobile.
5.
Anonymous Proxy era.
This free browsing settings works perfect with the default browser of
your phone (Java or Symbian), it also work very well on pc if you can get a
good host. Configure your proxy ip with any anonymous proxy ip, type in any of
your service provider homepage URL and you are automatically redirected to the
proxy page where you will type in the website you wish to visit.
One disadvantage of this free browsing trick is that it disables your
java script of the website you are visiting, making it hard to get the full
features of the website you are visiting. In this era we are don’t bother about
the limitation we face as long as we can download large file and also browse
for free.
6.
IMEI era
As technology advancement increase in Nigeria and many people starts
using smart phones for various needs. In this era most people that enjoy
unlimited data are blackberry users and before you can enjoy this plan you need
to change your phone IMEI to that of blackberry to enable you enjoy this
unlimited data.
This era push out GLO Nigeria to the limelight because this IMEI tweak
only work with their network, just change your APN to blackberry.net and change
your IMEI to any blackberry product and you are ready to go. Later 9mobile was also affected with this
tweak when you purchase a new Smartphone.
Nigerians got no chill when it comes to free stuff, you got to continue to tweak to keep getting free data to your sim until the network provider decided to block it.
Nigerians got no chill when it comes to free stuff, you got to continue to tweak to keep getting free data to your sim until the network provider decided to block it.
Now that you can recall this era
which one do you enjoy most and how do you get the tweak. Feel free to drop
your comment below.