Ethiopia gets 3G services from ETC
By Ben Robinson on Thursday, January 8th, 2009 at 2:35 PM PST In Announcements, Telecommunications
Continuing my news track from around the world, it’s great to see that ETC (the only Mobile Operator in Ethiopia), has announced the launch of 3G services in Addis Ababa. The Operator will run a Prepay services on WCDMA at 384kbps. Coverage is going to be growing across the city, with additional services like MMS and Voicemail launching too.
As I said above, it’s always nice to see countries which are perhaps behind the curve in some technologies making leaps forward – levelling the playing field if you like, at least to some extent. Ironically, in many developing countries, cellular is the only kind of telecoms network you’ll find – whereas most of us are used to our landline (though we are using them decreasingly if research is to be believed), a substantial number of people have never known landline services…
[Via: telegeography.com]
