WAP vs PC numbers of users in South Africa – claims via Matthew Buckland. I would like to know what they did online, and for how long. Nevertheless, it’s a striking comparison.
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9.5m vs 5.7m
11-Nov-09Report (partially funded by RIM BlackBerry).
Burried within is the gem that mobile penetration is at 114% in South Africa.
The Price of Fish
11-Nov-09The classic micro-economic study of the price of fish along the coast at Kerla, and how the introduction of the mobile phone reduced inefficiencies in the market, creating a single price of fish along the coast – smoothing out the inconsistencies due to poor information. Is there an African example ?
Interview with Tom Standage
11-Nov-09I see the author of The Economist’s Special report on telecoms in emerging markets now has a podcast interview I missed by reading the paper edition.
Mobile Money
11-Nov-09A Bright Yellow world
11-Nov-09MTN Uganda’s branding is scary-happy-yellow. Their East African Roaming is interesting – Safaricom (Kenya), MTN Rwanda (Rwanda), Vodacom (Tanzania) connect together with benficial rates. The airtime top-ups are integrated, so you can load minutes from one network onto another. The MTN footprint is significant. This could grow.