A wireless Internet network based on the WiMAX technology, has been installed in Damaturu, the capital of Yobe State. Skip to next paragraph Photo fileInternet site WiMAX, the Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access, is a telecommunications technology that provides wireless data over long distances. The Yobe network, said to be the first in Africa, has a 30-kilometre radius wireless Internet that covers the whole of Damaturu. The entire project cost N831m. A statement on Monday on the project, stated that the Minister of State for Information and Communication, Alhaji Ibrahim Dasuki Nakande, inaugurated the project on Friday alongside a comprehensive ICT Resource Centre and computer ownership scheme for all civil servants in the state According to the state government, homes, offices and educational institutions in Damaturu can now connect to the Internet without any need for wires once they have the right computers The cost of connection would be less than 70 per cent of the ...
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