When I had to switch from GLO Network to MTN

As a matter of policy, and that is right from inception of GSM, I dont patronise MTN especially to make calls, the closer I got to using MTN is their data services. I dont like the network one bit. For over 8 years now, I had sticked with my Glo line like a glue.  All that is now a thing of the past.
I am done using my Glo network.  After 8 years of being loyal to them, I am quitting the Glo line, and I am eating my word, I want to give MTN a trial.
A lot of people are asking me the real reasons behind my crossing the carpet to MTN, the reason is simple, though MTN isnt a perfect solution to the reason why I am leaving GLO, but then, I am tired of paying for poor services to GLO especially on data services here in Abuja.  Their data is so slow and unreliable and had put the use of my newly acquired smartphone into a white elephant. Enough is enough.  I would have loved to switch permanently to Etisalat which is still the best data services provider here in Abuja, but then, I am already using their network for my blackberry.
See, sometimes, when we grew tired of certain thing, we still change, change itself is constant. Ever pause and ponder about this?

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That Etisalat HAPPY WEEKEND Recharge Promo is Fraud

Ok, I received the SMS on my phone on Friday afternoon. It reads: "HAPPY WEEKEND is here again! Start recharging from 6pm today and get double on all your recharges of N200, N500, N1,000, N2,000 and N5,000 to call all networks".

As my phone had been out of credit for the greater part of the week and was looking for money to recharge, and as I was about to purchase a credit, I was like, let me wait till 6pm and recharge.

So when I got home later in the evening, I painfully bought 500 naira credit, and to my greatest surprise, I got the following reply. "Dear customer, for recharging N500.00 you have received an additional bonus of N500.00 both valid till 23.59 on Sunday."

This is fraud.  If you are giving me a bonus, it can expire, but my real earn credit I purchase cant certainly expired in 2 days.
What etisalat is doing is a big fraud to unsuspecting Nigerians.  What indirectly they are telling us is to recharge a lower denomination, because, in my case now, I recharge 500.00 and get another 500 naira, and since I did not make much call for the weekend, I lost both my original credit and my bonus. 

Someone should drum it into the ear of this network operators to stop using corny ways to extract money from the customers. When next I receive such weekend recharge promo, I am going to load just 100 naira, since they are telling us that we cant recharge more than that, less you end up forfeiting your credit.
Now Pause and Ponder, they even give us the option of recharging 5,000 naira credit and they expect us to finish all the 10,000 credit in 2 days. Now, should in case I recharge 5,000 naira credit, and I got 5,000 bonus, does that mean I will forfeit the whole 5,000 original credit when I couldnt even finish the bonus of 5,000 not to talk of the original 5,000 credit? That is a big FRAUD.

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How to Deactivate Annoying GLO Value Added Services

If you are my type that do received annoying value added services from GLO most especially from Glo Frenzo and GLO SMS Menu, then here is how to deactivate them.

There is this annoying text messages that the number start from 547*****, and also, they came in calls too. Well I grew tired of them and devote a whole day trying to figure out how to deactivate them. After scouring the internet, since their customer centre hardly help, all you need to do is to send UNSUB to 547.  That should sure do it.

Then again, there is this annoying sms from 8888, I dont even know how I subscribed to it, but they are sure annoying, as regards that, all you need to do is the following:

For word of the day sms UNSUB WORD to 8888,

For Jokes send UNSUB JOKE to 8888,

For Health tips send UNSUB HT to 8888,

For Weight loss tips send UNSUB WLT to 8888,

For Weight Gain tips send UNSUB WGT to 8888,

For Christianity send UNSUB CHRIST to 8888,

For Islam UNSUB ISLAM to 8888,

For Romance UNSUB ROM to 8888,

For Dating Tips UNSUB DAT to 8888.
For Hair Tips UNSUB HAIR to 8888

As for the Glo Radio and calls from 4040 number, if you are using a smartphone, just download any of the call blocker and include those numbers among the blocked calls. That should do it.

Now, just pause and ponder how this telecom companies can really bored us with unsoliciting value added services without telling us making it obvious how to deactivate them.

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