By Steve Song, on February 3rd, 2010
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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 [...]
By Steve Song, on April 14th, 2009
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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 [...]
By Steve Song, on March 26th, 2009
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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 [...]
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