Comparison between MXit, Mig33, eMSN, Crickee, Agile & UltraIM
I found this apparent independent research between some leading mobile instant messenger services, I imagine from the perspective of a potential MXit business partner in South Africa. At least, that’s what it says on the discussion thread.
It reports that a message overhead - that is, the code required to be sent with your instant message when you send/receive it - is 2kb on Mig 33, whilst it’s 0.1kb on MXit.
It goes on to show that standing still, the idle data consumption of Mig 33 is apparently 220mb per month. Butter me in honey and call me Susan! If you were using Mig 33 on Vodafone, that would cost you £517 a month. MXit would cost you about £1.60 a month. What a difference.
There’s then a comparison of the number of SMS-type messages (e.g. 160 chrs) that can be sent in 1 meg of data. Mig 33? 474 messages. Fair enough. MXit? 3,938 messages. Geez.
I’ve managed to connect with MXit top man, Herman Heunis — so I hope to have a Q&A interview to publish soon.
Hi,
I’d like to strongly refute that page and call it bogus. I’m a co-founder to Project Goth Pty Ltd, the developer and operator of mig33.
mig33 is ’smart’ and can support both HTTP and Socket connections. With HTTP, and when the user is ‘active’, then the client will poll. This may generate traffic. But if the user puts the handset down, the poll elongates and happens increasingly less frequently.
Also, if you connect through Sockets (95% of all users), then the bandwidth utilisatio nis very low. I’m a heavy user of mig33 and i’d use it for 2 hours a day. And in a month, I’d be lucky to clock 1.5mb of data traffic.
regards
SG
Posted by Steven Goh on September 1st, 2006 at 1:53 am.Hi,
Im a heavy user of mig33 too, i also tried mxit few months ago and its not stable for our gprs systems here (indonesia), it always disconnected every 10 minutes.
Im used mig33 now (allways on 24 hours a day), its very stable (with TCP) and easy to operate, with Voip services that integrated inside, i can speak very cheap with my friends globally. What a great application.
About my cost? just US$ 0.2 / day. Very cheap!
Posted by Deddy on October 13th, 2006 at 4:00 pm.MXit is actually MUCH MUCH more stable than mig33 and is better suited to the GPRS type environment (wireless) .. Also, to log up 1.5MB of data using MXit takes about a day or more. I’ve logged 400KB in one day before after chatting for around 8 hours. I have over a hundred contacts and chat to most of em so a LOT of messages were getting sent.
On the plus side for mig .. its free (chatrooms) and Iv met a lot of real kewl ppl (met my chic on mig33 btw) although we prefer chatting on MXIt due to its stability and the fact that u only chat to people u know .. on mig33 .. most of my contacts, iv no clue who they are.
Mig33 gotta lotta catching up to do for MXit but also vice versa. Both have benefits and drawbacks. Personally, MXit is my pick but hey, I use both!
Posted by dude on November 9th, 2006 at 3:14 pm.I am a mxit user & have to tell you MXIT ROCKS and MIG33 SUCKS. Got a lotta catching up to do.
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Posted by crick on May 22nd, 2007 at 11:37 am.guys i have recently moved to the U.K. i lve mxit, but cantafford it. i usde £5 in one evening, that was only chatting to my girlfriend…how do u guys get it so cheap..please help….im on a pay as u go pack with vodafone
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