I just asked my maid that question. She spends around $5 week for chatting and checking emails. Data is very expensive currently and those that use the internet spend at least double that. I am on a corporate package so don't really know the costs myself. 1GB is around $5 currently.
So for a majority of people in townships Hive would be unaffordable, rather than them being the exact audience we would all expect to flock to sites like this because a buck can make a difference.
Yes currently looking at it like that. If Hive is not Data friendly then they couldn't really afford it. Only the ones that are working in an office or have access to a computer at work will be tempted.
Data prices need to drop before that happens. I think the first step is to target the ones just above them who could afford to get going. The $5 or $10 would be needed to be spent over a month at least in order to see a return meaning a $20 -$40 investment.
I just asked my maid that question. She spends around $5 week for chatting and checking emails. Data is very expensive currently and those that use the internet spend at least double that. I am on a corporate package so don't really know the costs myself. 1GB is around $5 currently.
Whoa! That's insane.
So for a majority of people in townships Hive would be unaffordable, rather than them being the exact audience we would all expect to flock to sites like this because a buck can make a difference.
Thanks for asking btw!
Yes currently looking at it like that. If Hive is not Data friendly then they couldn't really afford it. Only the ones that are working in an office or have access to a computer at work will be tempted.
!ENGAGE 30
That was the angle from which I approached my initial reply to Taraz: the unbanked and poor people for whom any regular earning could be meaningful.
And there’s billions of those.
Data prices need to drop before that happens. I think the first step is to target the ones just above them who could afford to get going. The $5 or $10 would be needed to be spent over a month at least in order to see a return meaning a $20 -$40 investment.
Well, all that I can say about this is imagine how charities like us are struggling with the high costs of IT in South Africa.
I can imagine as things are not cheap and everything has a cost attached to it. Stay well and lets hope everything changes very soon.
ENGAGEtokens.I wonder if it is possible to have a stripped down version?