The digital age: Cyber Cafes pay the price
At the dawn of the digital age, smart phones have emerged as better means of communication in replacement of cyber cafes.
In the yesteryears, each street had a cyber cafe with a phone booth and computers for scanning and text production.
Today, the smart phone does it all, explaining why cybercafes have been sent out of business.
Mr Akono Laurent owned a cyber cafe. He recounts his ordeal.
” The arrival of smart phones made us progressively loose clients because people used their smart phones in the place of computers. The business could no longer raise money to pay workers, rents and other bills. We were forced to switch to a more profitable business”.
Some of the former cybercafes have been transformed to other more profitable business spots like game centers , music stores , sales points for refurbished computers and accessories. Few cyber cafes however exist because not all users can afford smart phones. Also, students and Cameroonians in rural areas still depend of these points for digital communication, photocopies and printing of documents.
Smartphone: The down of a new era
As technology advances, producers of smartphones have gradually conceived the phones to play the role of the computer.
Internet service providers of the Telecommunications sector also offer very attractive deals .
Presently, the average smartphone holder is permanently connected through mobile data that provides quick and easy access to the internet.
Through this, the user connects directly to the social media networks like Facebook ,Whatsapp, YouTube, Instagram from the comfort of homes or offices.
Kathy Neba Sina
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