The product is already making waves, taking away worries of many Ghanaians and Africans over high prices of tablet devices, it has become a preferred product for many on the continent. It runs on Google’s Android operating system as well as Microsoft’s Windows 7 and 8.
The ‘K’ in ‘K-Pad’ is for Kludgeson. Kofi Kludgeson, the Executive Chairman of Alltel Limited, a Ghanaian IT company in an interview with journalists in Accra on Tuesday he stated: “After five years of technical development, we have come out with a product that is a major breakthrough in the world of technology.
“We have come out with a K-Pad and in three months the product has hit the world market in a might way.”
The KPads range in size from 7 inches up to 10.1 and run Android and Windows. Kludjeson’s company, Alltel Limited (not to be confused with Alltel…), has made this product available to customers for 75 Ghanaian Cedis (around $43) per month for three years, making them 2,700 GH₵/$1,548 total.
“Our focus on K-Pad is to look at the rural communities because there they have problems with data. In the health sector for instance, we want nurses to use K-Pad to record the basic data requirement for patients in order to make healthcare more accessible and efficient,” Mr Kludjeson stated.
He also added that K-Pad has transformed into an African project and the goal of Alltel is to target only five per cent of each economy’s population.
“In the last few months, we have had a lot of the international press some from Belgium Television, Reuters and BBC wanting to know more about Alltel and its products, especially the K-Pad.”
Alltel is going to introduce in the next two weeks, a product called “K-Phone”. K-Phone, which is a mobile phone with an Android operating system and dual SIM that will give 24/7 Internet service to users. In addition, Alltel hopes to develop a 4G network in Ghana, he added.
“In the next three years, we should be able to create and empower skills development for about one million youths in Ghana. The country is growing currently at 15% and a lot is happening and if we do not take advantage of the knowledge and technology gap, a time will come foreigners will do that for us.”
Alltel is making plans to list on the Ghana Stock Exchange in the next 12 months.
