Three sisters are using technology developed in South Africa to offer affordable wireless Internet in townships.
Three sisters — Kholeka, Tobeka, and Bongeka Lwana — have launched an Internet service provider to make connectivity more accessible in South African townships.WISPs are Internet service providers offering subscribers a point-to-point wireless connection to the Internet, usually over a technology that uses unlicensed radio frequency spectrum like Wi-Fi.
“We are making technology easily accessible to this audience, where it was previously inaccessible,” Kholeka LwanaShe added that mobile users could buy Wi-Fi access passwords for educational, skills development, and ecommerce purposes. Lokshin WiFi also partnered with Flash — a payment platform provider — to manage points of sale with its vendors, which include spazas and shisa nyamas.
“We offer prepaid fibre internet in daily, weekly, monthly, two monthly and three monthly packages. We also offer speeds of 10, 25 and 50Mbps,” eKasi Fibre director Brad Lowman told MyBroadband.
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