Banking via Mobiles in Africa
July 23rd, 2008 | No Comments
The so-called ‘mattress to mobile’ revolution, whereby Africans are moving from the habit of keeping under the bed what small sums of physical cash they have and to the use of cellphone-based systems able to deal in transfers of virtual money. Read article.
Pre-paid billing is driving growth in the African telecoms market.
July 22nd, 2008 | No Comments
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Africa, telecommunications next frontier?
July 18th, 2008 | No Comments
It is a little known fact that one of the world’s earliest implementations of a pre-paid mobile platform was in South Africa in the early 90’s. Its introduction spawned a mobile telecommunications growth that rivaled those currently being experienced in countries like India and China.