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Despite efforts to provide high-speed Internet Africa is falling behindthe rest of the world. Due to lack of infrastructure many African countries concentrate on mobile phones. Hoever, this does not necessarily remove the need for bandwidth for as quoted by
Network World 2/11/2009:
Cisco says the advent of smartphones and laptops with 3G aircards will lead to an explosion of mobile data traffic over the next five years, as an iPhone typically generates 30 times the mobile data traffic of a basic-feature phone, while a laptop generates 450 times the mobile data traffic as a basic-feature phone. A recent study by mobile browser developer Opera Software showed that data traffic sent to mobile phones jumped 463% in November 2008 as compared with November 2007, and that page views on mobile devices were up by 303% over the same period. Thus the need for bandwidth continues even wit just mobile phones.
Complex mobile applications, such as telemedicine, interactive gaming and mobile education systems, won't be realistically available until carriers begin launching more of their 4G network offerings next decade.
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