Developing countries need wireless broadband
Developing countries are a crucial segment of the wireless broadband telecommunications market and it is only through developing nations that the truly large economies of scale start to work, according to Adrian Scrase, head of Mobile Competence Centre 3GPP.
In an interview with News24 he said that cost was the key issue for wireless infrastructure and points out that the company is trying to build communities around a common standard and to develop that standard to a point where the costs can be reduced, making wireless broadband affordable for developing nations.
He says that the majority of people in Africa use wireless Internet access. Scrase says the flood of smartphones coming onto the market could cause an exponential increase in data on mobile networks in an environment where users are expecting costs to come down.
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