Africa surviving on mobile high-speed internet connections
While the rest of the world is experiencing more advanced benefits of high-speed internet, so are African businessmen and individuals – with mobile technology.
The innovations that come with mobile phones are most welcome in Africa as it has become the leading tool in entrepreneurial pursuits, communications and technical solutions for computer programs, software development and even website management.
Such creative and ingenious results are borne out of necessity, with Africans being known to live productively in scarce conditions. This is true as the recent years have witnessed innovative mobile services from the citizens themselves.
Today, we now see these innovations in the “call me” services and the mobile movements of money for purchase of products and payment of services. Both have been proven effective means of communications and holding business, long before other developing countries have employed such methods. Having Vodafone and Safaricom making use of the payment-via-phone scheme came only later after the innovations have been started by the Africans themselves.
But it does not stop there. With or without fiber optics, more advancement on mobile technologies are currently under works from the poorest whiz to the private sector talents. Holding testaments to the smart solutions are showcased at sites like Africagadget. From detectors of water areas abundant with sea bounty to automobile tracking systems all using just a mobile phone, the innovations are varied and have great potential for mainstream market.
The good news is that the academic communities are supporting such creative pursuits with universities seeing East Africa as a future leader in information and communications technology in the continent. Other fuels to this growing potential for Africa are the shipping of more data-enabled mobile phones to Africa and new bandwidth for the new wireless technologies being brought to the region.
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