NAIROBI: India's Bharti Airtel continues its move into Africa, launching a 3.75G platform in Zambia to give users high speed broadband Internet on their mobile phones. The new service will also allow users to watch television and make video calls from their hand devices, the company said on Tuesday. “3.75G technology will give our customers the opportunity to interact with data in a different way,” said Fayaz King, managing director, Airtel, Zambia. “This is why Airtel doesn't see 3.75G as a product but a platform that enables the community to expand its social and commercial horizons, alongside the rest of the world,” he added. The company said the technology used to usher in 3.75G was the fastest available and will be enormously beneficial for a variety of users, which include large corporates, small or medium businesses and the youth. It offers speeds up to 21 megabytes per second (mbps) and is similar to those being rolled out in Europe and the US. Users in the country are already excited, with Garite Houssein telling Bikyamasr.com via telephone that “it will really be awesome to be able to get online with our phone in the same way those in the West are able to do. It's a good thing and I know it will be successful.” BM ShortURL: http://goo.gl/oSgqP Tags: 3G, Bharti Airtel, Telecom, Zambia Section: Southern Africa, Tech
