Ọrẹ Ogunbiyi
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 16 Jul
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The Intelligence from The Economist · In it to bin it: Nigel Farage v Count Binface · 16 Jul 2026
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In Abuja, which is the capital of Nigeria, people complain almost every day about the lack of reliable internet.
Glitches and outages that last sometimes 15 minutes or as long as an hour have become part of daily life.
And so I went to a tech mall to hear a little bit about what people are struggling with.
When you walk into Bannex, everyone's trying to sell you something.
They're trying to sell you a phone, they're asking you if you need your laptop fixed, if you need a screen fixed, if you need a ring light or a tripod.
This is the center of Abuja's tech scene.
So it seems like a logical place to come and ask people what they think about their internet connections.
Most times.
Most times what?
There are many reasons why Africa's internet infrastructure still continues to fall short.
And one of them is that it relies very heavily on cheaper mobile broadband instead of fixed-line internet.
You have over 400 million Africans accessing the internet via their mobiles.
But this technology isn't robust enough to meet the growing demand for data.
Starlink, Elon Musk's satellite option, is increasingly filling the void, but not without its own issues.
Well exactly.
More people are streaming videos and they're taking longer to buffer.
People do video calls on WhatsApp now and they're glitchy or they drop out without warning.
And as more people use AI powered applications, they're gonna need even more data than they're using at the moment.
So things are gonna keep getting worse.
More people want more data, traffic is expected to at least triple by twenty thirty, and the current infrastructure just isn't good enough.
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