Radio antennas are being transformed into GSM antennas.
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Another one from along the Kaduna-Jos road
Friday, December 1st, 2006Advertisement for mobile phone operators 02
Friday, December 1st, 2006
Somwhere in Kaduna. The “Xtra Connect” offer by South-African corporation MTN means calling cheaper to family or friends (“Call 3 family & friends @ 25k/sec”). Keeping contact with family that lives far away seems a very important use of the mobile phone here. People I have talked to named this as one of the main benefits of the “handset”. They also mentioned as a negative side postponing face to face contact by keeping in touch via the phone
Advertisement for mobile phone operators
Wednesday, November 29th, 2006
Advertisement for mobile phone operator, 28 nov. ’06 Kaduna Nigeria.
Interestingly, you hardly see any mobile phone actually being used by people on the ads here.
Mobile phones for sale in Abuja supermarket
Wednesday, November 29th, 2006
Pic taken November 27 2006 at Abuja supermarket.
Talking to filmproducers
Tuesday, November 28th, 2006Today we were in Kaduna to meet the folks from Newage Film Company. Nothing spacy in long robes but a professionally looking company. Esther talked her head off…i shot some stuff with the dv we brought. We both have a good feeling about it. Tomorrow to Jos..
Mobile online access in nigeria
Monday, November 27th, 2006oh, and i just posted these last 2 items from my mobile phone…well done MTN for having gprs access in nigeria!
The eagle has landed
Monday, November 27th, 2006we have arrived in abuja safely. Picked up from the airport by driver and an armed man… That moist smoky air and thick sound of crickets… Absurd style of driving: drive right side, pass right side. Cook pierre at daniels (esther’s cousin in abuja) place is from benin. Weird that one of the first conversations here in anglophone nigeria is in french….
tomorrow we go to kaduna to meet some film people from the “new age film company”. See if they are interested in collaborating.
Going to Nigeria
Saturday, November 25th, 2006Tomorrow me and Esther Polak are going to Nigeria on the NomadicMILK fieldtrip. Packing my bags now… I will try to post some new stuff here once in a while when we are able to get online.
Apparently our telcom operator in Nigeria MTN has gprs access too, so I’ll check that out as soon as I am there. However, as you can see here, there are still some white areas in Nigeria…(and that’s only the GSM network).
Biological fuel for mobile phone antennas in Africa
Thursday, October 12th, 2006
Blog has been silent for a while, which in my case is an indication of doing lots of things at the moment..:). This post on textually.org I found interesting, since media artist Esther Polak and I will be going to Africa (Nigeria) in a couple of weeks for the art/science project NomadicMILK. It’s a project about mobility patterns amongst nomadic Fulani herdsmen and WAMCO truck drivers. We will be traveling with cultural anthropologist Ab Drent, who has done a 10-month research amongst the Fulani in northern Cameroon in 2000/2001.
We will try to visualize to uses of space by both nomads and truckers by means of GPS and find out whether the use of the mobile phone influences their use and experience of space. There is a preliminary website for the project NomadicMILK with more info about the project.
Anyway, here’s the article:
Pumpkin power dawns for African mobile phone networks
Palm and pumpkin seed oil could soon be generating electricity to help power mobile phone networks across Africa under a plan to replace fossil fuels with sustainable biofuels made from crops grown by local farmers. Reuters reports.
“Swedish telecoms networks group Ericsson and South African cellphone operator MTN said on Wednesday they want to start replacing diesel with biofuels in electricity generating stations powering mobile phone base stations in rural Africa.“Swedish telecoms networks group Ericsson and South African cellphone operator MTN said on Wednesday they want to start replacing diesel with biofuel in electricity generating stations powering mobile phone base stations in rural Africa.”
Via textually.org
——- update ———
Mobileafrica confirms that several players work on a pilot project in NIgeria:
The MTN Group, the GSM Association and Ericsson have teamed up to establish biofuels as an alternative source of power for wireless networks in the developing world. The three organisations have set up a pioneering project in Nigeria to demonstrate the potential of biofuels to replace diesel as a source of power for mobile base stations located beyond the reach of the electricity grid.