(Last Thursday, the company that I have so stringently supported nearly ruined everything I have worked for. If their intent was to thoroughly mess me up, they could not have chosen a better time.)
On Thursday evening, I had just made a call, one of the thousands of calls I have made in the last couple of weeks bringing together the many different elements that have propelled the amazing COSON Week. The next call did not go through. Instead, I was told that my number had been barred for ‘insufficient registration’
I thought it was one of those unending jokes that our telcos play on us. Now and again, they will tell you that a number you have been calling every day for ten years does not exist or the number you dialed is incorrect or your number is not registered on the network. Just dial again and suddenly, the number exists, the incorrect number suddenly is correct and the number is registered on the network.
It was not one of the jokes. I tried every trick I knew and my phone was truly barred! How could that happen on the eve of the COSON Song Awards?
I am not one of those guys who carry a battery of phones all around. Apart from my official Closed User Group (CUG), I am a one phone guy. Apart from my old naught-nine-naught, when the cell phone became reality in Nigeria, I subscribed to Econet, the first GSM company to roll out in Nigeria. I paid nearly N30,000 for a SIM card, the same SIM card that is given away for free today! I have stuck with the same number through the dizzying change of names from Econet to Vodafone to VMobile to Celtel to Zain. Put together, I have spent millions of Naira on this …Read More
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