There is fire on the mountain, BBM (BlackBerry Messenger) run run run. lol. Mister Mobility once said that sooner or later BlackBerry would lose the top spot in the Nigerian smartphone market to Android (that’s of course if Nokia doesn’t seize the opportunity to reclaim its’ lost glory) and looks like that’s about to happen pretty soon with the launch of Unlimited WhatsApp communication for just N100 ($0.63 USD) monthly.
With WhatsApp, you can connect with loads of friends irrespective of the platform of your mobile device (iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, Nokia S40, Nokia S60 and Windows Phone are supported). No need for PINs like in BBM. Just your regular everyday mobile phone number.
According to their official page, this exclusive Airtel Nigeria – WhatsApp data plan is available to all Airtel subscribers simply by dialing *948#. For those on regular Airtel data plans starting from 200MB, access to WhatsApp will remain open long after they’ve exhausted their monthly data allowance.
Only time will tell, how long this plan would last given that you can transmit videos/songs as large as 12MB across the service. That doesn’t translate into profits for the network in my opinion and trust Nigerians, we know to *over-use* things. lol
Spread the word guys and do please share with us your experience with the service, if you’re currently subscribed to it.
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I don’t know how this will eventually play out. But me think having a unified plan to cover Whatsapp, Twitter, and Facebook as well as one email and browsing on Opera mini would not be a bad idea. Then we will truly know that Blackberry BIS is really threatened. I think it can be done.
Shall we call it: Airtel Social Plan for Phones :D
@Deola: A unified data plan for social networking and another for email and opera mini ain’t a bad idea at all. The could leverage Opera Mini’s data compression but with the social networking bit, it may prove a bit risky sha since most of the apps available don’t come with inbuilt data compression. That’s why I love BlackBerry. A 2MB pic can be reduced to 300KB or even less before it’s uploaded to the social network ;)
P.S: By the way Airtel WTF sounds way better. lwkmd
Airtel simply the best network out there
*688# (N5,N25,N100)=facebook usd for 1 month access
*948# (N100)=whatsapp for 1 month
Is there no throttling and ish?! People go dey zap some serious bandwidth on these offers