The system works by assigning you a trigger no which you call and then allow to ring a certain number of times. Three options exist for the gateway to connect with the US for mail exchange with Internet and this are discussed briefly below. Similar to the RBF trial. Mainly e-mail possible. Get one of the call back services and subscribe to one of the On-line services like Compuserve and America Online and dial into them directly from Jos.
Automation is possible with both services allowing automated delivery of e-mail.
Both introducing 28.8k bps access soon so real time online access may be done to retrieve information or participate in online conferences. This would offer the ability to have a domain name and offer users a chance to subscribe the a personal e-mail account on the Internet. It will then be feasible to obtain faster 56k bps that is possible with full ISDN and this would make online access much faster. The gateway in Jos can also run a 24 hour bulletin board and serve as informat ion centre and allow users with modems access information, e-mail at any time. It can also allow dial up services directly with any of the nodes setup and with a software as Seadog or other similar e-mail, the system in Jos could poll the other computers at the other nodes once or twice a day to download and upload messages and files.