West Africa Needs Better Internet Connectivity for Future

According to 2017 estimates, about 13.5% of the African population has Internet access. While Africa accounts for 15.0% of the world's population, only 6.2% of the World's Internet subscribers are Africans. Africans who have access to broadband connections are estimated to be in percentage of 1% or lower. How Cajutel can change the future of Africa by bringing great speed of internet at affordable rates in West Africa?

The Internet in Africa is limited by a lower penetration rate when compared to the rest of the world. Telecommunication companies in Africa are looking at Broadband Wireless Access technologies as the key to make Internet available to the population at large. Projects are being completed that aim at the realization of Internet backbone that might help cut the cost of bandwidth in African countries.

Cajutel, a Guinea-Bissau based telecom is building the much-required infrastructure to serve the masses of Africa with solar powered high speed Internet. Cajutel will bring great speed internet in Guinea- Bissau and other parts of West Africa as well. A number of projects have been started that aim at bringing more bandwidth to Africa, in order to cut down costs for both operators and end user but Cajutel will give it best utility service in Bissau as bandwidth will be available easily and less costly, the first to benefit will be institutions and companies that already have Internet access.

In order for the network to reach a larger part of the population, solutions are needed for the last mile problem, i.e., to make bandwidth available to the final user. To be feasible for Africa, last mile solutions must be found that take into account the limited penetration of fixed telephony lines, especially in rural areas. Of about 400.000 rural communities that are estimated to exist in Africa.