r/MurderedByWords • u/NefariousnessIll8787 • Mar 16 '23

Murder Seems dead to me.

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u/flamethekid Mar 16 '23

I came to Ghana and most things are tied to whatapp , Facebook or one of the phone services like MTN.

Bruh they order food on whatapp and Facebook.

The universities have been trying stuff like Google classroom but it doesn't work since whatapp requires far less stable internet access than Google classroom.

Even the shittiest internet connect can still receive messages.

I'm American and for a while now sms wasn't anything I considered to be an issue.

Come to Ghana a good chunk of the time it don't work or they charge up the ass for every message and picture

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u/VastFair8982 Mar 16 '23

They don’t have email in Ghana, huh?

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u/flamethekid Mar 16 '23

They do, you need internet that isn't free to use it.

Most email is sent with your phone data

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u/VastFair8982 Mar 16 '23

So you have a phone that can’t text or call, and it’s connected to WhatsAp without using any data?

Also, 1GB of data (about 1000 emails) costs $0.65c in Ghana. Average income was $75 in 2019. That’s a smaller share of income than I pay for mobile.

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u/No-Bird-497 Mar 16 '23

Yes, Facebook gives them free internet on their app to monopolize and control thied world countries,that's the whole point of this post. People in those third world nations largely cabriolet afford a an internet connectiom or regular phone/sms service besides for very linited use

So they rely on Facebooks "Free Basics" and or similar programs

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u/VastFair8982 Mar 16 '23

Please name a country. I’ve been wrong before and I’ll be wrong again. But I’d love to get to the bottom of this.

It would blow my mind if there’s a country with a version of “free basics” that doesn’t include email, AND with no free “please call me” texts, AND with free facebook.

Usually there’s some kind of workaround. But like I said, I’d love to jump down this rabbit hole - what’s the country?

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u/No-Bird-497 Mar 16 '23

Fre basics doesn't work if Whatsapp doesn't work, they originate from the same source. If whatsapp is down then free basics users can't turn to other platform.

The fact most of the nation has defaulted to whatsapp instead of using 3-4 different plattforms is not really the point, if they can't access one they can't access the others.

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u/flamethekid Mar 16 '23

Where did you get those numbers from?

1GB of data costs around 12 cedis or around $1 on mtn and 10 cedis on Vodafone.

Those are substantial amounts of money.

And whatapp uses far less data.

And the same money you spend on data goes towards phone calls as well

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u/VastFair8982 Mar 16 '23

Errr. If 12 cedis is $1, 10 is about right.

My sauce for this is pretty reliable, though the data is from 2021.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1274872/price-for-mobile-data-in-ghana/

But I also see there’re wild fluctuations in the Cedi rate. It was like 15:1 just a month ago, so that will distort any “average” figures too.

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u/flamethekid Mar 16 '23

Yea the economy moves like a wet noodle.

One month when I sent money there it was almost nothing, then all of a sudden its more than two times the first value.

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u/MrMontombo Mar 16 '23

I'll take that as a little lesson that internet detectives usually don't have access to accurate data.