The moronic reason you Android users part with more money than your BB counterparts? Hear the regulatory body give you the bare-bones... The NCC says, “The manufacturer of BlackBerry utilises a special compression algorithm to serve users of Blackberry handsets who have subscribed for the Blackberry Internet Service. Whenever such a subscriber browses the Internet and opens a webpage, a request is sent via the handset’s browser requesting for the page to be downloaded to the phone. “This request is channelled to BlackBerry Limited’s gateway in Canada, which fetches the webpage, compresses it and sends the compressed data back to the BlackBerry phone as a download. “On an Android phone, the request to open a webpage by telephone subscribers is sent to the gateway of the network operator, which then processes the information and sends back the page to the Android phone as a download. But the data is not compressed – thereby requiring more bandwidth.” Quick question: how is it that this only obtains in Nigeria? We probably are the only country where BROADBAND may not be all that BROAD, after all.
Posted on: Sat, 07 Jun 2014 18:53:20 +0000
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