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By Steve Song, on February 3rd, 2010
  Erik Hersman recently tweeted “I’d like to hear more on whether we should build SMS or internet services in Africa?” This had the serendipitous effect of breaking a bit of a blogger’s block for me. I think most would agree that the answer is not either/or but a mix of the two. That being the [...] By Steve Song, on November 9th, 2009
Here is a first stab at putting together an index that relates the cost of mobile services to income at the bottom of the pyramid in Africa. I found some ILO data on minimum wage that covers 24 African countries and a I found a couple more by googling. Here are the assumptions [...] By Steve Song, on March 26th, 2009
Problem solved. You’ll be happy to know that the cost of an SMS has come down to 1 US cent….. if you live in the Philippines. But the news is even better. According to this article, the price of SMSes in the Philippines is likely to drop to a tenth of a cent! There are estimates [...] |
 
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