Comments on: The BlackBerry solution arrives in Ghana – implications for poverty? http://www.blackberrycool.com/2009/09/09/the-blackberry-solution-arrives-in-ghana-implications-for-poverty/ The voice of the BlackBerry community. Sat, 18 May 2013 20:02:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Unknown http://www.blackberrycool.com/2009/09/09/the-blackberry-solution-arrives-in-ghana-implications-for-poverty/comment-page-1/#comment-405431 Unknown Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:17:21 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/?p=15508#comment-405431 Thanks for your comment David, thats great news for me that it IS possible to use my BB over there! And yes indeed, almost everywhere I went in Ghana there were these street vendors selling top-up cards haha..

]]> By: Unknown http://www.blackberrycool.com/2009/09/09/the-blackberry-solution-arrives-in-ghana-implications-for-poverty/comment-page-1/#comment-505506 Unknown Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:17:00 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/?p=15508#comment-505506 Thanks for your comment David, thats great news for me that it IS possible to use my BB over there! And yes indeed, almost everywhere I went in Ghana there were these street vendors selling top-up cards haha..

]]> By: Unknown http://www.blackberrycool.com/2009/09/09/the-blackberry-solution-arrives-in-ghana-implications-for-poverty/comment-page-1/#comment-405003 Unknown Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:05:27 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/?p=15508#comment-405003 That would be absolutely fantastic!

So, does this mean that people with a RIM-device can make use of the new network when available? And what internetspeed are we looking at?

]]> By: Unknown http://www.blackberrycool.com/2009/09/09/the-blackberry-solution-arrives-in-ghana-implications-for-poverty/comment-page-1/#comment-505505 Unknown Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:05:00 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/?p=15508#comment-505505 That would be absolutely fantastic!

So, does this mean that people with a RIM-device can make use of the new network when available? And what internetspeed are we looking at?

]]> By: David West http://www.blackberrycool.com/2009/09/09/the-blackberry-solution-arrives-in-ghana-implications-for-poverty/comment-page-1/#comment-404817 David West Wed, 09 Sep 2009 20:51:10 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/?p=15508#comment-404817 I traveled in Ghana last summer with my TMobile BB 8800 — had voice everywhere, GPRS most places, and EDGE frequently. I spent a day on an island in the Volta River delta — no water, no electricity, but I had EDGE — was getting emails all day long. Traveling down the river you could see the cell towers on the horizon every few miles. The big gain for the developing world is the opportunity to skip copper entirely and distribute communications out to the countryside with minimal infrastructure investment. The really cool thing, to me, was how they’ve overcome the challenges of charging for service in an economy with no credit facilities and marginal postal service, fixed addresses, etc. In every town and village there are small booths selling top-up cards, as virtually all service is pre-paid. Market forces and entrepreneurship have found a way to devise a delivery infrastructure that works.

]]> By: David West http://www.blackberrycool.com/2009/09/09/the-blackberry-solution-arrives-in-ghana-implications-for-poverty/comment-page-1/#comment-505504 David West Wed, 09 Sep 2009 20:51:00 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/?p=15508#comment-505504 I traveled in Ghana last summer with my TMobile BB 8800 — had voice everywhere, GPRS most places, and EDGE frequently. I spent a day on an island in the Volta River delta — no water, no electricity, but I had EDGE — was getting emails all day long. Traveling down the river you could see the cell towers on the horizon every few miles. The big gain for the developing world is the opportunity to skip copper entirely and distribute communications out to the countryside with minimal infrastructure investment. The really cool thing, to me, was how they’ve overcome the challenges of charging for service in an economy with no credit facilities and marginal postal service, fixed addresses, etc. In every town and village there are small booths selling top-up cards, as virtually all service is pre-paid. Market forces and entrepreneurship have found a way to devise a delivery infrastructure that works.

]]> By: BlackBerryCool (BlackBerry Cool) http://www.blackberrycool.com/2009/09/09/the-blackberry-solution-arrives-in-ghana-implications-for-poverty/comment-page-1/#comment-404784 BlackBerryCool (BlackBerry Cool) Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:27:02 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/?p=15508#comment-404784 The BlackBerry solution arrives in Ghana – implications for poverty? http://bit.ly/1pRW5p

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