Facebook Set To Launch Express Wi-Fi Hotspot in Lagos

The social networking giant, Facebook has partnered with one of Nigeria’s
Local Internet Service Provider, CoolLink to launch a program called Express
Wi-Fi around the city of Lagos. The service was first implemented in India
and Nigeria is the second country to get the hotspots. TechSuplex reports
that, the service will be launch this week, but already in operational in some
part of Lagos such has Ikota Shopping Complex.


Express Wi-Fi by Facebook is a new program that lets phone owners
purchase data from local internet service providers. Their data are very
cheap, compared to prevailing internet rates. Subscribers can get 5GB
monthly for just N1,600. Or 100 MB for just N40.00 for a day.
Users within the Express Wi-Fi coverage area will be able to browse the
sites of Facebook Free basic platform for free, but other online activity will
be require a fee. The available data plans on Express Wi-Fi are listed below:
Data bundle Cost Validity
100MB N40 24hrs
300MB N110 24hrs
750MB N270 7 days
2GB N700 7 days
3GB N1000 30 days
5GB N1600 30 days
As you can see, it is the cheapest data plans ever. Presently, their services
will only be available in Lagos and will be deployed across the country
eventually, as soon as the first phase which is centred around Lagos is
completed.


If you’re within a coverage area, you can SignUp for Express Wi-Fi a free 14
days trial here, which gives you free 100MB daily sign up here . https://expresswifi.coollink.ng/subscriber/landing_classic/en_US