mobile phones in the developing nations

The computer is often too expensive for the vast proportion of the population in developing nations. So the mobile phone is the more viable alternative. With internet access crossing into the mobile industry, the sector of the globe should be open to the WWW.

The International Telecommunication Union says more Africans have begun using phones since 2000 than in the whole of the previous century.

However, only half of sub-Saharan Africa is covered by a mobile signal, and many remain too poor to buy their own phone.

New subscribers in developing nations are largely responsible for this growth. Key regions, including Africa, the Middle East, and India, are driving growth.

The New technology is helping farmers find out the real price of their crops - and avoid being cheated by unscrupulous middlemen.

In most of Africa, meanwhile, only a fraction of people have bank accounts—but there is a demand for cheap, convenient ways to send money and buy prepaid services such as airtime. Many Africans, having skipped landlines and jumped to mobiles, already use prepaid airtime to transfer money. This is referred to as Mobile phone micropayment.

Some example of phone use in developing nations

Communications in Chad Telephones - mobile cellular phone: 65,000 (2003)

Communications in Kenya Telephones - mobile cellular phone: 5,000,000 (2006)

Communications in Algeria - Telephones - mobile cellular: 17 million (2006)

Communications in South Africa Telephones - mobile cellular:18.0 million (2004) provided by three GSM networks, Vodacom, MTN South Africa and Cell C . MTN and Vodacom also support the UMTS 3G standard with Cell C expected to join them before the end of 2005.

In Iraq under 1 per cent of a population of 27 million has web access, according to Internet World Stats. yet since the 2003 invasion, the number of handsets has gone from 1.2m land lines to 4.6m land and mobile lines. websites like YouTube and Ogrish.com positively teem with clips posted by USA soldiers of their service in Iraq.

Companies in Africa

NationLink Telecom is a mobile phone operator in Somalia.

Kenya - M-Pesa is used to disburse and pay micro loans by phone.

Celpa - mobile-phone company, offering platforms for banks and phone companies in Zambia and Congo.

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