• Inside Google’s innovative African broadband trial
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[url]http://gigaom.com/2013/07/03/inside-googles-innovative-african-broadband-trial/[/url] [quote=Gigaom]Broadband connectivity is getting more widespread by the day, but the industry is still experimenting with new techniques to spread it further. Google and Microsoft, for example, are both using trials in Africa to test out a new wireless technology called white space broadband. Google’s trial is taking place in Cape Town and, seeing as I was on holiday there in the second half of June, I couldn’t resist popping along to see how it’s going. I’m very glad I did so. For an experiment that’s only supposed to deliver humble speeds of 2.5Mbps to each of the 10 participating schools, it’s turned out to be a lot more useful than I initially thought it might. Although the schools generally already had ADSL broadband lines, these are of very poor quality, mostly thanks to Telkom’s monopoly in South Africa. The white space broadband trial is delivering up to 10Mbps per school, which makes a real difference — it’s perfectly normal for a Telkom line to deliver speeds that are only measurable in kilobits per second.[/quote]
Google I don't think you comprehend I don't even one megabit per second. I'll even let you set up your tower shit on my property, I just want fast internet!
oi Google get one of those in my house. what do I get, like .5 mb/s?
Obligatory "when NBN getting to my area" comment. Still, this should be pretty good for the development of the region.
ya, thinking about how innovative some africans can be (they tried building a plane out of a toyota hilux) access to internet and simple programming could quickly bring some wealth to the massively impoverished africa
[QUOTE=Sableye;41320938]ya, thinking about how innovative some africans can be (they tried building a plane out of a toyota hilux) access to internet and simple programming could quickly bring some wealth to the massively impoverished africa[/QUOTE] For sure. Almost all african inmigrants I've met are very humble (as a person, not necessarily in an economic way) and hard-working, and if given the opportunity to do something they usually put more effort onto it than most of the people. Good IT education could mean an outsource of jobs from other countries to Africa, which as you said, could bring some wealth, and I'd add that it would come in the form of a much needed middle class, to pay taxes to fund basic state infrastructures, and to help grow a healthy democracy through a politically conscious society less prone to fundamentalisms and corruption.
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