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If you live in a country where internet connections are spotty, slow, or non-existent, Google wants to bring you your Gmail via text message. On the Google Africa Blog, the Product Manager for Emerging Markets announced that Google SMS would launch in three countries today: Ghana, Nigeria, and Kenya.
If you live in one of those countries, you can switch the service on using your Gmail preferences. It’s free, but standard data rates apply. There’s no word on where Google might expand the project next—or when and if it might come to countries like the UK where smartphones and blazing Internet are pervasive. For information on how to set up Gmail SMS head over to the Google Africa Blog. [Google Africa Blog via TechCrunch]
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and Australia
http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/australia-gets-low-broadband-ranking-20120718-22azx.html
You realise this whole fiasco happened to Vodafone in the entire south of England not that long ago? Could happen to any one of the providers!
O2 is hardly the most reliable out of the networks though is it?
Absolutely, but if you are making a TOPICAL joke you mention the one who’s network problems are all over the news.
I think it’d work equally well for anyone trying to use the internet here in the UK.