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INTRODUCTION

The internet has been a mainstay of our lives since the development of electronic computers in the 1950s and since then, the world has witnessed a lot of revolution starting with ARPANET in 1960 to the current internet that we use in the 21st century.
Over the years, lots of information has been passed over and through the internet through the development of electronic mails (emails) and so many other social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Twitter and the rest.
These information are passed on successfully through the internet through the availability of tons of data in their kilobytes, megabytes and gigabytes which are made available by network providers in our locality. These are made possible by the bandwidth allocated to individual customers by these network providers.

The bandwidth, despite being available have come with it lots of limitations that hinders the usage of the internet by individual users.
These issues are as follows:

Limited Quantity

Despite being provided, the bandwidth provided by these communication companies are severally limited and comes short of the expectations of the users in proportional amounts. In Nigeria, the bandwidth is very poor that it rarely meets the demands of low income earners willing to use the internet.
Certain websites owners most times find error messages like bandwidth exceeded when their websites are being visited by users, leading to loss of millions of dollars by these individuals due to downtime. This points to a larger extent, the limitations of the bandwidth which struggles to meet the expectations of the users.

Unavailability in Certain Locations

Such was the fate of John, a good friend of mine who traveled to his home town in a remote town in Anambra state Nigeria for a family meeting. John would soon learn it the hard way, that there are no available network for usage, in order to enable him to contact the manager in his company to attend a meeting in his place, due to his absence. This was caused by the limited presence of a network mast or substation as the case maybe provided by the network provider , in his locality.
This is one of the major problems experienced by high end users in remote areas that are not popularly commuted.

Expensive Costs for Bandwidth

Subscribing for bandwidth in my country of origin, Nigeria is ridiculously expensive and the services I get are mostly poor with the network providers unable to meet the end user's taste.
This is also one of the major problems experienced by users that travels abroad from their places of residence for business and several other purposes. Due to the fact that the service providers in their different countries are different from each other, they now resort to data roaming in order to do some tasks as meager as sending a text message.
These data roaming are very expensive for foreigners and might limit them from using the bandwidth to a certain extent as they may want.

From the reasons listed above, a satisfying solution is needed in order to bring all these problems to an expected end.

THE SOLUTION??

BandZ is the obvious solution to all the above mentioned problems.
BandZ is a decentralized platform which allows the
distribution of bandwidth through the blockchain by the provision of a global extranet.
BandZ aims at providing a cheaper and readily available internet which has the ability of linking users together to form a much better end product.

HOW WILL BandZ OPERATE

PERSONAL INTRANET

BandZ aims to to provide a personalized Intranet for every user.
The intranet is a private network that makes it possible for companies to be able to keep out their internal data from foreign eyes, hence providing a members only access to what they have on their internet.
BandZ aims to provide users with their own intranets where they can store their personal data without any dependency from foreign bodies or companies.

SECURE, CHEAP AND INDEPENDENT VPN

BandZ not only provides Intranets but also also gives a brand free and fool proof VPN, which allows users the ability to operate their own Virtual Private Networks without involving a third party to deal them in.
This gives users a added incentive to buy BandZ tokens that will allow them to connect and be able to pay each other at the end through the system's bandwidth.
BandZ users can now control their own data without restrictions and without fear of being hacked or their information being sold publicly on the internet. BandZ aims to fulfill every individual user's right to privacy.

MESH NETWORKS

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BandZ also aims to decentralized the internet by providing what is called Mesh Networks. This Mesh network is a group of devices that are paired to each other in a synchronous manner to create a wireless communication. This eliminates the need of a central dependency in which several users are mapped onto one station(node) to obtain bandwidth which most times ends in network congestion and a very low speed in the usage of those bandwidths.
With a Mesh network, users can properly connect to each other and in no certain order hence, creating a network that allows these devices to support each other and allow other nodes to join the network and also create an efficient, fault tolerant system that can easily be maintained. This is due to the fact that no single node bears the burden of hosting the rest of the network nodes, hence the decentralization.

Benefits of a decentralized Internet

Everyone uses the internet, but it's not everyone that gets the full services the internet has to offer. This is due to the issues of Hosting companies, internet providers and other communication giants, dictating how the bandwidth flows.
With a decentralized internet, millions of users can now be able to determine how much bandwidth they can have access to without interference from any service provider or hosting company.

A decentralized internet will also eliminate the dependency of service providers which are most times, not available in remote areas like my friend John experienced.
This eliminates the problem of not having a substation to subscribe from since the users will now be attached to their own network nodes and hence can as well provide services to others who need it.

A decentralized internet will also lead to a cost efficient network with emphasis on users privacy without spending a fortune. It allows the users to share their own data as they wish and to whatever extent they deem fit. This will reduce significantly the risk of the user's personal information being prone to a hack or an attack.

A decentralized internet also eliminates the congestion and speed problem which has been a common occurrence in the internet world. Error messages like network busy and session has expired will be a thing of the past through the Mesh network system. This will lead to an affordable and faster system of internet.

Who can benefit from being able to exchange the bandwidth?

With BandZ's vision of decentralization, power is now in the hands of users who can now acquire BandZ tokens and also be able to sell to those who are in need of getting the bandwidth.

Social media platforms will also benefit from the sharing of these bandwidth as much more people will now have access to those platforms.

Individual with websites can now have an unrestricted access to the bandwidth necessary for their websites. Some of these websites contains heavy content which would have been difficult to access under normal bandwidth restrictions. With the sharing of bandwidth, the issue is duly eliminated.

Schools and institutions that involves in research work can now, solve the issue of limited access to their students as everyone can now connect to each other.

Companies and Industries can now travel to anywhere around the globe without fear of not being able to get bandwidth to reach its members around the globe.

Finally the government of countries involved will increase their national revenue through the increase in BandZ subscribers as there would be no more limitations.

BandZ's IMPACT ON LOCATIONS LACKING INFRACSTRUCTURE

This would impact these locations positively because, the dependency that limits their involvement in internet activities will now be lifted which will lead to more people having access to quality internet. Most of these locations are found in Africa.
The idea of BandZ will bring readily available internet to their beck and call and hence lead to a monumental development of those areas.
People living in these locations can now be able to research more innovative ways to improve their environments.

Advantages of Mesh Networks

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Elimination of a Dependent Node

BandZ Mesh Networks eliminates the total dependency of internet on a single node which can sometimes develop faults and lead to delay of transmitting bandwidth.

Zero Congestion bandwidth with high speed Internet

Most times, users are always confronted with an error message of network being busy or too slow to operate at an expected speed. Mesh Networks connect dynamically and non hierarchically to all the other nodes they can find to pair with. This leads to better relay of information to their final destinations at the speed of light without any congestion.

Easy to Maintain and configure

Mesh Network work through a self configuration that allows it to be able to reconfigure itself in cases of certain loopholes. This makes it fault tolerant and very cheap to maintain.

How BandZ gets rid of Data roaming

Data roaming has always been the option that users traveling abroad uses to have access to bandwidth. These process are most times, ridiculously expensive and time consuming.
The ability of BandZ to operate through Mesh Networks will allow any user traveling to any part of the globe to be able to to pair with any available node of anyone who has access to the bandwidth. Users can also be able to buy and in turn sell to willing buyers, who are in need of a bandwidth. This creates a much cheaper way of internet accessibility.

CASE USES OF BandZ

CASE 1

Rita travels down to a remote village in Nigeria for her National Service, she discovers that the institution she's serving under have issues with getting internet access due to network. Rita remembers she has BandZ access with which she sells to the institutions and makes tons of profit through BandZ tokens.

CASE2

Femi travelled to London for a conference over the weekend, he discovers to his dismay that that he needed to upload some of the pictures to his social media account, and he does not have access to any free wifi and the local network are charging him a ridiculous high price for Data roaming.
He then logs onto BandZ network and is able to upload his pictures through BandZ access at a much cheaper price.

BandZ TOKENS

They are the nucleus of all BandZ operations as they can be used to buy and sell bandwidth and other services. Sales will start at 22nd June.

MEET THE BandZ TEAM

For more information

• BandZ Website
• BandZ Whitepaper
• BandZ Telegram
• BandZ LinkedIn
• BandZ Facebook
• BandZ Twitter
• BandZ Reddit
• BandZ Github
• BandZ YouTube

CONCLUSION

BandZ is a technology designed to give more power to the users for high end internet access. BandZ is what any good internet user in the world deserves. Think of a very fast and affordable internet with unlimited bandwidth for its users. That is what BandZ has to offer. Thanks for reading.

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