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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 April 14th, 2009
Courtesy of the ITU’s Measuring the Information Society Report, here is a list of SMS charges in thirty-eight African countries. The costs are listed in U.S. dollars and in Purchasing Power Parity dollars. Interesting to note in the below that there is an order of magnitude difference between the cheapest and most expensive SMS in [...] 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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