Subscribers have their own e-mail addresses. These service providers offer access to a large number of computers. The most developed web access providers offer direct access to the web and customers get a free web-based mail service. They pay between FF10-75 per hour. Access is the bottom end of that scale at night or on Sundays.
Competition seems to have driven prices down.
Again these companies offer access to a large number of computers. The less well developed web access provider simply has one computer and people send e-mail through the one address of the centre. Most cybercentres in Benin fall within this category. However the number of people using these internet services is probably three or four times that amount. There is no governmental strategy to harness the technology for the economic development of the country.