+LIFE

Although Nigeria has the highest mobile subscription in Africa; there is still over 30+ million unconnected and Penetration (% of Pop. with Internet) of 37.59% leaving approximately 63 million on the other side of the Digital Divide. Hopes for improvement is hampered by the absence of the prioritisation of these largely semi – rural dwellers with low –poverty levels of income. For this segment which arguably describes most of Africa’s 900m people, the promise and potential of connectivity ... to transform their lives is a distant prospect where it exists at all. lack of a pro African grown mid-range solution. It is against this background that we introduce ‘+Life’, a revolutionary and affordable off-line platform providing a communication gateway for rural areas as well as a low-cost alternative for urban areas. +LIFE allows people to stay connected at all times, message and calls even without traditional data bundles. +LiFE is a platform that helps people stay connected by providing free calls, browsing, online chat and SMS services on the platform. The +LiFE technology uses multi-Protocol Mix of un-Licensed channels, blending WIFI, Bluetooth, V-sat and long haul routing peer to peer mesh data links into a free and persistent communication network backbone. We realized that internet access is very important for rural development through education and information dissemination. It also forms a part of the major reasons for rural-urban migration in Nigeria and the entire Africa, so we set-out to provide a simple, innovative and reliable solution that is designed to provide a primary communication gateway suitable for people living in rural areas where there is little or no data or network coverage, as well serve as an alternative low-cost communication platform for urban dwellers. The platform also supports development of 3rd party applications that can be tailored to meet the needs of users on the backbone.More