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I can't precisely remember the year I got my first phone, a totally used phone (supposed to be fairly used) that I was convinced to buy because I was so desperate to join the gang of those using phones and also, to make noise playing my own music. It was a very small Sony Ericsson phone which I bought for around 5,000 naira. During those days, there was nothing like a lack of data because anytime I recharged my phone number, say with just 100 naira, 10 megabytes would come with it as a recharge bonus, and with that, I could surf the internet any way I liked until I made the next recharge again. And by chance it finished and I wanted to buy a data subscription, I would sacrificially use the 100 naira in the account to get 10 megabytes again, and it would last me until eternity.
Back then, 2go was always on, we never left a very popular site called waptrick.com just to search for music to download, and also, we had other chatting sites where we chatted with foreigners.
Just 10 MB was enough to do all that and span all through one or two weeks. Back then, we were downloading complete tracks of a song with just 400 KB, maximum is 1 MB if the song was too long.
BUT WHAT DO WE HAVE NOW??
In this era, 10 GB can barely last for a week and we are spending a lot to purchase these data subscriptions... and it's very normal to us.🥹
CAN WE GO BACK TO THOSE DAYS...
I really wish it were possible to go back to those old sweet days when 10 MB was just all we needed to surf the internet and no need to worry much about data subscriptions.
For now, after food, the next thing that's eating up my money greatly is data subscriptions and I will be glad if we could have back the olden days... with that, I can save all this money I'm spending on data subscriptions and use it to build a house. Lol
I know it's not possible because things have changed greatly compared to what we had in those days. A typical example is the smartphones we have today. Phones of those days were modded on 2G networks which were highly compatible. With this, data consumption was very low due to low speed. But the phones we have now have moved far away from this 2G network; now we have 5G. Take a look at the space between 2G and 5G, it's very far away... this consumes data due to the high speed of the internet.
Most smartphones still have the option for 2G network in the internet connection settings but once we select that, opening a webpage will take hours, if not days or weeks.
The most funny thing about this rate of data consumption is that we are just okay with it and applauding the telecommunications companies for bringing a very fast network which is good though but it's killing us.
Maybe I'm thinking weirdly, I think there's a way for the telecommunications and phone companies to work it out to make modern-day phones that are compatible with a low-budget network like 2G and still make it usable with ease.
Bringing back this will make life a bit easier compared to what we are spending now on data.
Thanks for reading
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