29 April 2008
As of this year, China and India may have the world’s largest mobile markets, but the African continent is catching up fast. As of mid-2007, there were over 231 million mobile subscribers. This represents an increase of 45 per cent year-on-year, a rate that has made the continent the world’s single fastest-growing regional mobile market.
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23 April 2008
The cost of using the Internet in the Eastern African region is set to significantly drop with the construction of a new submarine cable network. Seacom, a Mauritius-based company, is constructing the submarine cable network that will link East Africa, South Africa, Europe and Asia.
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27 March 2008
A plan from the Universal Service and Access Agency to take voice and data services to the most rural South African areas could see operators Vodacom and MTN paid subsidies to do the job, Business Day reports.
The operators have to promise high-quality services even the poorest people can afford in return for having up to 80 per cent of infrastructure subsidized. But the cost will not hit taxpayers as the cash will come from the Universal Service Fund, to which the operators themselves contribute.
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Source: Business Day
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