Africa needs laptops PCs and mobile phones

Africa needs laptops, PCs, fibre optic cables and mobile phones to fuel a communications revolution.

It is a revolution that proves no one Information and Communication Technology (ICT) system fits the entire globalised world. Companies and governments are having to adapt to people who want phones that adapt to their often limited resources.

Fixed line telephones have never been a fixture in Africa. The mixture of far-flung villages and huge cities teeming with low wage families was too much for companies who could easily lay or hang copper wire cables across Europe and North America. The mobile phone, easy to carry around, and whose infrastructure is cheaper to deploy, has led Africa’s revolution. It is the only continent in the world where mobile phone revenues are higher than fixed line. 

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