List of failed telecommunications operators in the country

These companies could not survive the harsh business ecosystem of Nigeria. No thanks to epileptic electricity supply, multiple taxation, insecurity and poor economic situation of the country. These companies are:

1.      Starcomms

2.      Reliance telecoms

3.      MTS First communications

4.      Disc communications

5.      WiTel

6.      O’Net (Odua telecoms)

7.      Rainbownet

8.      Monarch communications

9.      Xs Broadband

10.  Webcom

11.  Visafone communications

12.  Nitel

13.  Mtel

14.  Mobitel 

1.      Multilinks

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Resist fake ICT products

The standard of living of Nigerians has fallen so low that we cannot even recognize substandard products when we see one. Even marketers now proclaim the counterfeit products as the genuine ones, confusing would be buyers the more.
The body responsible for inspection and regulation of all products manufactured or imported into the country i.e Standard Organization of Nigeria (SON) is in deep comatose. Since there is no watch dog for standards as far as importation is concerned, the country has become a dumping ground for fake, counterfeit and substandard products.
The ICT industry in the country is evolving very fast and some miscreants are taking advantage of it to deprive populace of quality and genuine ICT products at affordable prices because of their own selfish gains.
Substandard ICT products have a damaging effect on the economy, posing grave dangers to the health, safety of the buyer and constitute environmental hazard.
The impact of counterfeiting on the economy cannot be overemphasized. Manufacturers of authentic products wriggle in pains as they lose their market to counterfeit dealers. This hit back at the economy, causing massive unemployment rate, loss of revenue and tax by the government, copyright and trademark infringement, unfair competition e.t.c.
Statistics has shown that over 300 million substandard mobile phones are sold yearly in the country. These phones, because of substandard materials used in their manufacturing can be very injurious to the user. Cases of malware, virus, spyware, trojans are on the increase because of the use of fake phones.
The way forward however is continual sensitization of consumers on the dangers of acquiring substandard ICT devices. Then, right and reliable contacts where authentic ICT products could be bought should be made known to the populace.

A Nigerian problem

In Nigeria, people prefer to patronize second hand products not only because they are cost effective, but because they are more durable than the new products in the market. The new ones are characterized by low quality; substandard and most times counterfeit while second hands are usually from original manufacturers and thus last longer.

This seems to be a Nigerian problem because in other countries it isn’t so. In other countries, new is new and the second hands are incomparable to new ones. This means that something is fundamentally wrong with our importation system in this country. There is no active watch dog as regards importation. So therefore, importers capitalize on this flock the market with substandard products just to make huge profit; turning the country to a dumping ground for all ground for all matters of product.

Consumers are at the receiving end as they have no choice but to patronize what is available in the market which can sometimes be detrimental to their safety and injurious to their health. This menace has become so bad to the extent that marketers even proclaim the counterfeit products as genuine, hence deceiving unsuspecting buyers.

Why on earth would a brand new generator last for just one year? Why would a new phone have poor audio reception? Or why would a new cloth fade out on first wash? Is it not better if patronize made in Nigeria of these products? At least that would help to develop our economy and create jobs for our teaming unemployed youths. Recently, I over head the vice president saying we don’t have any business with China if we can develop Aba. I think that would be a good initiative after all when given a chance to materialize. Really we don’t have any business with China if we can produce generators that would equally last for one year as those imported from china.

This I think is a totful thoughtful!! 

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What you should know about affiliate marketing

What is Affiliate marketing? Affiliate marketing is simply referring people to check out particular products and when they make purchases as a result of your referrals, you earn commissions on the products.
Many people are interested in Affiliate promotions but do not know how to go about it. Here are the fundamentals of becoming a seasoned Affiliate marketer.
1. Set up your blog/website and identify with a niche you are very passionate about. Setting up a blog takes nothing because there are several free hosting domains such as blogger, wordpress, joomla, drupal e.t.c to get started with. But to be more professional, purchasing a hosted domain isn't a bad idea.

2. Register with an Affiliate program. There are quite a number of them like Amazon, Ebay, Commission junction, Clickbank, Shareasale, Ejunkie e.t.c as foreign Affiliate programs and Jumia, Konga, Dealdey, Kaymu, Jiji e.t.c as Nigerian Affiliate programs.

3. Select your referral products. Mind you, products must be related to your blog/website niche.

4. Generate banners or link codes for the products and paste it on your blog/website life page.

5. Make reviews of the products on your blog/website. Give a concise description of the products,
advantages of purchasing and using the products, testimonies of your very self using the product as well as your relationship with the companies of manufacture. That gives would be buyers the confidence to check out the products by clicking on the banners or links.

6. Continue to promote your reviews of the products on social media network platforms like facebook, twitter, linkedin, instagram, tagged e.t.c to attract buyers until you make sales. Most times, potential customers you meet on social media networks do not know what to do. So, you have to tell them what to do. Therefore, your product review must carry affiliate links like: click here to buy, buy now etc.

7. Earn commissions whenever sales are made on the products when quality visitors are referred to the products through the banners or links. Commissions are strictly base on purchases made on the products by the visitors.
It is worth noting that success with Affiliate marketing depends on the choice of products for referrals and the amount of compensations the companies are willing to pay as commissions. So always select products with high market demands from companies with good Affiliate marketing track record partnership.

N.B: Check out sites like Afilorama for further tutorials on how to become  a successful affiliate marketer.

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Why CDMA technology failed to thrive in Nigeria

Telecommunications ecosystem in Nigeria is dominated largely by two parallel operating network technologies. They are the Global system for mobile communications, otherwise known as G.S.M communications and the Code Division Multiple Access communications, otherwise known as CDMA communications. In comparison, it is obvious that G.S.M communications is thriving better than CDMA communications in Nigeria.Take for instance Etisalat that came into the Nigerian market a bit late had been able to find its feet. It has been able to find and attract it own loyal customers with its unique promos and offers. Of recent it launched its easy flex promo whereby subscribers get up to 300% bonus plus a specified amount of data on all recharges from N300.00 and above. Offers like this has really helped the network to gain grounds and thrive.

However, the success of the GSM network can be attributed to their ability to cover vast areas within a short time while CDMA operators lack the capacity of widespread presence and this affects their stability and threatens their existence. The longer the distance  a telecommunications signal can travel is the larger the users it can attract and the more the income it can generate. Most CDMA operators in Nigeria have fewer than a hundred telecommunications mast installations which is barely enough to circulate round. Consequently, their subscribers line is so thin and income generated so tiny when compared with expenses on maintenance, advertisement salaries e.t.c. No company can thrive in this condition.

Even Visafone communications, a network that stole the heart of many Nigerians, consistently receiving laudable commendations for its effort to  keep the CDMA flame burning and competing favorably with its G.S.M counterpart suddenly threw in the towel to the surprise of everybody. Now Visafone is a property of a successful G.S.M operator which further confirms that G.S.M operators are thriving better.

Starcomms on the other hand was so determined to succeed when it came into Nigeria. But along the line, faced severe business challenges that led to a reduction of its network coverage areas. Consequently, this affected their service delivery and they lost a lot of customers in the process which led their down fall. Today, starcomms is struggling to record up to a million subscribers line.

Multilinks from inception has never been comfortable with doing business in Nigeria. They never hestitated to complain how expensive doing business in Nigeria was and how low their profit margin had been. They always recall their struggles for survival in this harsh Nigerian business arena. On several occasions they had threatened to quit the country.

Now, it is obvious that the Nigerian business terrain is a harsh and thorny one that calls for only survival of the fittest. Its is based strictly on when the going gets though only the tougher gets going.  With all that has been analyzed, it is glaring that CDMA technology is dying gradually in Nigeria and in few years to come would fizzle out completely. 

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Net worth of Nigeria billionaires

1. Aliko Dangote: tagged the richest black man in the world and also the richest Nigerian. Operates factories in many countries in Africa. He is worth 12.5 billion dollars.

2. Mike Adenuga: tagged second richest in Nigeria. owner of Globacom Nigeria, Conoil etc He is worth 10.5 billion dollars

3. Femi Otedola: the oil and gas mogul himself. He is third wealthiest Nigerian and the CEO of Zenon and Forte oil and gas plc. He is worth 2.3 billion dollars.

4. Folorunsho Alakija: tagged the richest woman in Africa and Nigeria. A business tycoon worth 2.1 billion dollars.

5. Theophilus Danjuma: the chairman of Atlantic petroleum and former chief of Army staff who is worth 1.7 billion dollars.

6. Abdulsalam Rabiu: the sixth richest Nigeria who runs a conglomerate known for sugar production, real estate, cement production, port operations etc

7. Tony Elumelu: Former chairman of UBA and founder of Transcorp and Heirs Holdings. A renowned  philanthropist worth 1.4 billion dollars.

8. Orji Uzor Kalu: the founder of Slok Holdings former governor of Abia state. He is worth 1.1 billion dollars.

9. Jim Oviah: the Zenith bank founder and the chairman of defunct Visafone communications ltd who is worth 1 billion dollars.

10. Oba Otudeko: founder of honeywell group and chairman FBN Holdings plc. He is worth 650 million dollars.

But somebody is missing in the list! This is because nobody has concrete fact about is profile. But he is perceived to be very wealthy by most Nigerians. This no other person than Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu

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Wireless security

Wireless security has evolved over time. Originally wireless security started with pre-shared key WEP. WEP is a very weak network and hackers can easily break into its encryption. Pre-shared keys is a system of security where you type in a key on the wireless access point and other users also have to type in that same key in order to gain access to the wireless network. From WEP wireless security evolved to:
Evolution 1: Pre-shared key WPA: The first evolution into pre-shared was the WPA security which was referred to as WPA 1. WPA 1 was like an interim solution that improved on the WEP security. It has a lot more better encryption system called TKIP.
Then Evolution 2: WPA 1 and 802.1x authentication: It was an improvement on WPA 1 security. It uses username and password for encryption.
Finally Evolution 3: WPA 2 802.11i and 802.1x authentication: It became a standard that was widely supported and accepted by all. It uses AES encryption style. To use WPA 2 you must buy the required hardware that enables access to WPA 2 security domain.

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