4G Network Now Up and running in Lagos and Abuja,

MTN has finally announce the lunch of their 4G network to all of its customers in Nigeria. This MTN 4G network works for only compatible sim cards only, to check if your sim card is compatible, text “4G” to 131 and you will receive a text message response telling you if your sim or phone is compatible with the 4G network. If your mobile phone is not compatible then you will need to change your mobile phone to a supported 4G smart phone while if your sim card is not compartible you will need to do a sim swap to switch your line to a sim that is 4G-ready. This sim cards are called token sim cards because it can not store phone numbers (Contact).

MTN in regards to the 4G network lunch said:

inline with our efforts to deepen the growth and rollout of broadband across Nigeria, we are excited to announce that MTN’s 4G service is now available in Lagos and Abuja (with other locations coming soon).