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Is There More to Mobile Telephony than Cell Phones and Scratch Cards?

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Posted by: CareTaker on July 3, 2007 Under: Africa, Editor's Pick



Ethan Zuckerman, a consummate Afrophile blogger, via a post titled: “Incremental infrastructure, or how mobile phones might wire Africa“, reflects over mobile telephones and how the wireless service providers may boost power generation in Africa:

“If mobile phone companies – or a similarly entrepreneurial entity – could begin building larger, more efficient power generating facilities, they could service local communities with power as well as with telephony… Wouldn’t it be remarkable if innovative wireless phone companies ended up as the key force to wire Africa for electric power?

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