Access to Mobile and Internet Applications Open Up with IPJetDirect

A sample of Gateway's new IP JetDirect print advertising material.

Africa is the fastest growing mobile phone market in the world. Following booming growth in the mobile telephony sector - which saw 65 million new subscribers in 2007- and an encouraging investment climate spurring economic development in the region, Africa is a continent ripe for mobile and internet applications.

For example, although numbers are not readily available, a rough estimate of more than a million existing mobile banking subscribers is not ambitious on the continent. This is amazing if one considers the short time that mobile banking has been available and the quality of access services available. Gateway Communications has recognised our clients’ need to capitalise of customer demand for mobile and internet applications and in answer to this, we have developed IPJetDirect.

IPJetDirect provides direct, high speed, low latency connections to the global internet backbone - and other selected networks - to improve quality issues often associated with both mobile and African content. The service enables African operators who need to connect their mobile or fixed network to the World Wide Web to do so while guaranteeing high availability and a high quality connection through Gateway’s world-class SLA.

The service allows our customers to profitably increase revenue and minimise churn in the highly competitive market for African mobile data access. We deliver this world-class capability in a highly secure, scalable and cost-effective package with a robust SLA and the strongest support and coverage map available in Africa. Features such as enhanced techniques for caching and web acceleration make it ideal for delivery via satellite and for mobile network operators (MNOs).