Most Nigerians are not comfortable with just one mobile phone and
network. Most especially those in the business arena where their mobile
phones form an integral part of their day to day business. Just a phone
call can catapult a business man into millions. So you can imagine if he
had just one mobile phone and just one network with no network coverage
at that point in time. He would have lost millions! So, in order not to
fall victim to poor service delivery of a particular telecoms operator,
most
Nigerians go for back up phones and networks so that they are connected
to the world at all times.
But is it really appropriate? Well, the
answer is NO! No because something is fundamentally wrong with our
telecommunications system in Nigeria. In advance countries you are just
fine with one phone, one network. I remember my encounter with a white
man who was visiting Nigeria for the first time. The first thing he
noticed about us was that everybody had two or more phones. This was so
strange to him that he could not hold back his amazement. He called me
and asked. Femi, why is everyone in Nigeria holding two phones? "It is
crazy men! In Dubai you are just okay with one." That got me thinking.
So holding two phones is an abnormal situation. Unh? But here in Nigeria
we can't help it. Having multiple phones and networks, apart from network hitches,
is a thing of class. The number of sophisticated phones you possess puts
you in a particular kind class.
Possessing more than one phone and network is an abnormal situation, but the Nigerian factor compels us into such..
Everything still boils down to the status of our telecommunications
industry in Nigeria. A lot still need to be done by our telecoms
operators to meet up with international standard. They must attend to
infrastructural upgrade with all sense of sincerity. They must strive
to provide smooth and hitch free services at all times. That is the only
way there could be a decline in this abnormality.
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