Tanzania to Get Own Yahoo, Google Servers

Tanzania to get own Yahoo, Google servers

DAR ES SALAAM, April 4 (Xinhua) — Net surfers in Tanzania may soon find their hobby less time and money consuming as the country is negotiating the acquisition of its own Yahoo and Google servers.

The plan was revealed this week when the Tanzania Internet Service Providers Association launched the country’s first Internet Exchange facility in Dar es Salaam.

Preliminary negotiations between Tanzanian Internet Service Providers and the two website authorities already went underway, with the aim of providing local e-mailing and data accessing faster interconnection.

South Africa is so far the only country on the African continent to have locally-based servers as the country’s hotmail e- mailing website.

Without having to pass via international hubs in North America or Europe, locally-based servers will greatly boost accessibility and efficiency for Internet connectivity.

On average, Tanzanian net surfers pay between 10 and 100 times more than their peers in North America and Europe do, not to mention the fact that they have to wait much longer for what they have clicked for to appear on the computer screen.

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