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Africa

Posted on November 13, 2011

Africa the newest land of mobile opportunity

The number of mobile phone users in Africa has increased by nearly 20 percent every year for the last five years to nearly 649 million people in Q4 2011 according to GSMA, a telecom trade body. Ninety-six per cent of subscriptions are pre-paid with voice services currently dominating. There are currently six live HSPA+ networks across … Continue reading Africa the newest land of mobile opportunity

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Om Malik is a a San Francisco-based writer, photographer, and investor. He has spent three decades in the trenches of Silicon Valley as a journalist, entrepreneur, and, more recently, as a venture capitalist. He has been writing about the commercial Internet since its birth. Read more

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