By Toni Kan
They said telephones were for the rich and we believed them.
That was probably why when the GSM era dawned, SIM cards were sold for more than the minimum wage and so priced far above the reach of the ordinary Nigerian.
But it took the coming of a proudly Nigerian company, one whose avowed brand PURPOSE was to prioritise PEOPLEover PROFIT to change the sorry state of affairs.
The momentGlo threw its hat into the ring, it crashed the price of SIM cards and made sure that the ordinary Nigerian, whether in Lagos or Lafia, Benin or Bauchi could gain access to the technological marvel that was GSM.
They said it could not be done! That the technology did not exist and the ecosystem was not ripe for it.
But Globacom challenged those false assumptions, literally tore down made-up dogma and defied naysayers as it pioneered per second billing in a disruptive move that hundreds of years from now will be remembered as the true marker of what is described as…
Source: Vanguard Newspaper
