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We have at least three cell phone providers that have a more or less National coverage. We also have, compared to most European countries, a rather large cell phone number. Eleven digits (11), against 10 used elswere.

Most Nigerians have at least one cell phone, sometimes two to ensure one network is allowing you to make calls. The charges per minute are rather high, and most especially when you call from one carrier to another.

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It can be quite difficult to configure your Windows Mobile 6.1 or 6.0 phone to work with the MTN GPRS or MTN Internet network here in Nigeria. I have a HTC Touch Cruise and Samsun Omnia and both were difficult or impossible to connect to the internet here in Nigeria, but now this has improved!

I have figured it out now, and it is even simpler than expected...

All you need to do is;

• Add a Connection named MTN. 
• Make sure the modem is of the GPRS type
• Use the access point name: web.gprs.mtnnigeria.net
• Username and password are web and web. 
• All other settings are to be left on the default values. 

Do NOT use any proxy settings, there are some websites that advice you to do so, but I have not been able to make any connection when the proxy is active.

Update 22/11/2008

UMTS / 3.5G / EGDE / HSPA
Some people have requested for additional information to enable 3.5G or EDGE / UMTS speed settings. But with MTN this is very easy; those settings are identical. Your phone will go for the best connection possible the moment you enter into a zone with high speed network coverage. The moment when I enter into the Lagos / LEKI area my phone switches over to 3G network. Enabling me to use video converstations, etc. The internet speed is also a lot faster, browsing on my relative small screen is almost like at home in the Netherlands! 

The MMS settings were also requested, so please find them here below;

MMS

Set your account or profile name to MTN MMS;

 
That is all you need to do, the rest is done by the phone again. You might, depending on your income, want to prevent automatic download of all content. Since it is you who will pay for the data transfer after the free receiption of the new MMS message header.

Unfortunately it remains impossible to send MMS messages to the Netherlands or other European countries, but I am confident that once this will be possible also. 

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Tja, het klinkt als een vraag waar maar een antwoord op te vinden is, toch is het antwoord Brouwerij geworden.

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Okay, okay, okay... ik ben nu een beetje aan het doordrijven, maar erg ver zit ik er niet vandaan. De tijd gaat de laatste maanden zo vreselijk snel, voordat je er erg in hebt is het alweer Kerst.

Afgelopen weken lekker druk geweest. Productie technisch voldoende uitdagingen gehad om het hele team bezig te houden. Vanuit het hoofdkantoor komen ook altijd de nodige vragen en onderbrekingen dus wederom lange dagen en korte nachten.

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