Intel to cover Africa with wireless internet
Sunday, December 2nd, 2007Africa needs to embrace wireless broadband as a potential solution to the digital divide.
Chairman of Intel Craig Barrett has said. “It’s cheaper, easier and more efficient to communicate wirelessly,” he told the BBC News website.
Less than 1% of Africans have access to broadband and only 4% use the net.
The International Telecommunications Union has predicted that the Intel-backed Wimax system could become the dominant mobile standard in Africa.
The continent’s geography and political barriers have made it difficult to roll out wired broadband.
There is a shortage of fibre cable links between African countries and very few states have extensive copper wire networks for ADSL broadband.