Okay, so now a am in the cyber-cafe, suxxx that i am in the cyber cafe when i got a 3G phone AND datacard but .... I need net and my bevices dont work.
By the way, Nairobi is now supposed to be one giant hotspot courtesy of our benevolent dictator, oops, monopoly, safaricom. wish i could get me some of that, you see I live in the city but the 3G coverage stops just about 4 Km's from where I live @ so i cannot take advantage of this safcom 3G
(actually good for them coz the weight of ma downloads would have brought down their system anyway.... sour grapes)
Anyway it just goes to show how we in africa can still get the best that technology has to offer. I am a techie so I love the idea of 3G but both safcom and celtel have been on EDGE for a while now and most people still cant take advantage of this, i smell a marketting rat
Only rich folks are interested in 3G hence nice revenue( plus it is so fast you dont realise till your 5000/- bob credit runs out in the middle of the latest Kanye-West video download). Theoretically they charge the same for EDGE services hence same revenue but they cant milk it quite as much.
People the best way we got of taking the web to the masses is through EDGE, but even my preffered carrier, celtel with their great network, sem to be playing down the capabilities of EDGE. it is slow, but it is everywhere, and if web-designers( me ) were to code for low bandwidth( remeber that class? ) we would be really able to help out those guys without much aceess to the internet who dont know that their fone are GPRS/EDGE enabled.
enough of my rambling. and someone, PLEASE read my blog!
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