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Posted by Felix Okoli on Friday January 7, 2011 at 6:24:28:
It's called Feel the Impact promo. Main One cable is currently offering free Broadband Internet services at the Palms shopping Mall, Lekki, Lagos and it started sometime around Christmas - precisely on the 27th Dec. 2010 and expected to end on January 9th 2011. If you haven't felt the impact yet of probably the fastest internet services currently available in Nigeria, then you are really missing something special.
I had actually gone to the Palms about 2 or three times during the Christmas season and saw the free browsing promo being offered by main one but since was not with my laptop then and was not really bothered about it until I collected a pamphlet from one of the female ushers and went to their website.
You could call it a Christmas promo, marketing, just saying thank you to her future customers, but main one cable is currently offering free broadband internet services at the Palms shopping mall. There is a wifi service wherever you go to the Palms and although there are many other WiFi services available such as main one cable with key, main one free WiFi, Swift_hotspot, swift 4g broadband_hub media, Mainone free wifi is the platform on which you may connect without a key and it allows you to browse the internet at broadband speed.
I went to their stand today and although I had heard about it earlier, it was only today that I was able to connect as I brought my sony vaio laptop. Just go to the wireless connections icon on your desktop toolbar and you will be able to see the connections available. Click on the MainOne Free WiFi link and you are immediately connected. Note if you click on just the MainOne cable link, you would be asked for a key and since you are not yet a premium subscriber to them directly, them you would probably not need that. Main one is already in partnership with existing isps that we have in Nigeria and other several African countries, she aims to be the ISP for ISPs and it appears that they are also simulating a way to offer premium WiFi services in the future.
How I got ConnectedI asked the lady at the counter to set it up for me and then;
- After you must have clicked and connected to the free WiFi services available on your computer then you bring up your browser
- When you enter an address it takes you to a test page, click on continue and it takes you to the Main one official webpage
- Now you are able to browse at Broadband speed The Experience
I logged in at around 11.20 and in about 2 hours time i was able to download about 4gb worth of files. Now to really test it, I had to go to youtube to see if videos would play like tv and it did. Mainone is number one when it comes to internet service. MainOne's partners
MainOne actually provides internet service to other isps in Nigeria who now resell them to the end customers. Those isps which rely now on the ever effective cable company after many years of unreliability from other service providers are:
- MTN Nigeria
- busyinternet.com
- ecoband.net
- etisalat.com.ng
- galaxybackbone.com
- ipnxnigeria.net
- netcomafrica.com
- starcomms.com
- swiftng.com
- teledataict.com
- vdtcomms.comI am hoping faster and reliable internet services would now be the order of the day for the growing Nigerian subscribers and that ISPs would no longer have any reason to give for poor service delivery.
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Re: Main One offers free broadband Internet at the Palms Lekki Posted by Sola on Sunday February 6, 2011 at 13:49:59: I was there too. It was a sweet browsing experience.