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What is in a name? It was ECONET then VMOBILE now CELTEL.....What!? really is in a name? ECONET prided itself as the first company "to offer GSM phones to Africa's largest and perhaps most neglected telecoms market", Nigeria in August 2001 but ever since then it seems every other network that started after them has more base stations and a larger customer base. To compound issues, people are confused, Should we call them ECONET, VMOBILE or even recently CELTEL, what is really happening? The Chief Executive Officer of the CELTEL International group, the new owners of Vmobile Nigeria, Mr. Marten Pieters has however stated that Celtel is very prepared to take on the tasks ahead and its catch phrase is tariff crash. He's implied that despite the fact that a lot of people are using the GSM, most people have to pay through their noses to get the service. So, they intend to crash tariff. He also stated that despite the number of people using the GSM, many more people do not