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Mobile phone industry gets boost
DAILY NEWS Reporter
Daily News; Friday,December 22, 2006 @00:04
TANZANIA has made significant progress in the communication
industry following the installation of a modern switch from Siemens which will enable mobile phone owners to make multimedia applications such as videocalls, transfer data and access websites at high speed.
Vodacom Tanzania Limited Chief of Operations Peter Correia told a news conference yesterday that the firm has installed the Third Generation High Speed Downlink Data Packet (3G HSPDA)
technology in its Dar es Salaam network.
"Tanzania is now only the second country in Africa to have such a technology, after South Africa," Mr Correia said.
However, the applications can only be made on handsets that were 3G HSPDA enabled.
"We are in touch with manufacturers of mobile phones to ensure that the 3G HSPDA enabled handsets are made available to the
public at reasonable prices," Mr Correia told journalists.
He admitted that the firm's competitors -- Celtel, Tigo, Zantel and Tanzania Telecommunications Company Limited (TTCL) -- have services with similar application, but maintained that 3G
HSPDA was a superior technology.
Tigo, Celtel and Zantel use a technology known as General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) which is an enhancement to the GSM mobile communications system that supports data packets and multimedia applications such as video and web browsing.
TTCL uses Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) broadband technology in transmission of signals which expert say is efficient as well. 3G HSPDA is regarded as alternative to
CDMA.
