Will Cell Phone Internet access replace Internet Cafes in Africa?

TIGO’s IT Network and Operations manager, Dakshit Pandya, said, ”the service enables the mobile phone network customer to browse the Internet right on his palm handset and computers through their GPRS/EDGE platform”.

He told this paper during the launch of the new product in Dar es Salaam on Thursday that his company was not worried about international competition, but was more concerned about providing local customers with satisfactory service.

The term GPRS stands for General Pocket Radio Services, a standard for wireless communication, which runs at the speed of up to 115 kilobytes per second, compared to the current Circuit Switch Data (CSD) system that runs at a speed of 9.6 kilobytes per second.

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