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The Real Challenge of Telecoms in Africa
May 5, 2004 - 10:35 AM
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In most of rural Africa, there is still only one telephone for every thousand people. While it is true that the number of phones in Africa has risen enormously in the past decade, especially since liberalisation, most of the new telephones are mobiles, and they are mostly in cities. For rural people, buying and using a mobile phone can be a very expensive business. So as the ITU TELECOMS Africa conference gets underway in Cairo this week, a new report from Panos questions whether mobile services can become cheap enough to meet rural needs, whether new technologies are making traditional fixed-line infrastructures obsolete, and whether the level of rural phone use will ever be enough to provide a profitable market for private providers or will substantial subsidy be needed to ensure rural services? The new Panos Report, 'Completing the Revolution - the Challenge of Rural Telephony in Africa', is now available online.
Mobile Africa Must Not Leave Its Villages Behind
Africa is witnessing a revolution in information and communication technologies. Last year alone 13 million new mobile phone users were added and the continent is hailed as an exciting new model for this revolution. But huge gaps remain. People in rural areas have been ignored, as have been the poor. To reach them - and achieve the aim of universal access -governments and private companies need to find ways to deliver fixed line connections rather than expensive mobile phones. Murali Shanmugavelan reports for Panos Features.
India: The difference a call makes
Amid all the hype about mobile telephony, it's often forgotten that millions across the world have never even made a phone call, let alone owned a phone. In this feature, Alex Binu travels to a village in Gujarat that has one phone between 700 people to hear what a difference a phone call can make. Listen to his report online.
For all these new Panos information outputs, click on http://www.panos.org.uk/global/program_news.asp?ID=1002
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The Real Challenge of Telecoms in Africa....
July 28, 2004 - 01:33 AM
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That is why the need to explore a society of concerned elite is important. Moreso, the youths of Africa on the verge of a Global breakthrough in Education must stand together to ensure that technocrats develop as much products that can sooth the terrain and the people of Africa...we are moving forward.
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The Real Challenge of Telecoms in Africa ...II
September 19, 2004 - 02:34 AM
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The most annoying thing is that the more we feel we have seen a breakthrough, the minute some set of destructive elites feel they can use it to defraud the average working mental human figure.
Today, Service Providers make more than they can ever make at our own detriment ...and our government and people just smile home at the rate we burn the currency, hard earned by US ! It is outrageous !
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The Real Challenge of Telecoms in Africa....
October 21, 2004 - 05:52 AM
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Originally posted by pscornerstone
...we are moving forward.
Oh yes; but will still need to move very faster.
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