Cell phones are pervasive in the region. In 2002, roughly one-in-ten owned a mobile phone in Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya and Ghana. Since then, cell phone ownership has grown exponentially. Today, cell ...

The morning after I arrived in Liberia, in 2007, I watched a mob beat a man bloody in the street. He was a cell-phone snatcher, they told me. It was … ...

Cell phones have become a prime example of a technology that helps many different user groups. ... Number of cell phone users in Africa. In 2001, ...

A decade after mobile cell phone technology took off in Africa, most affluent city dwellers have phones, making poor rural areas like Kgautswane the new battleground for companies seeking growth.

Can Africa's cell-phone boom transform the impoverished continent? Economist Isaac M. Mbiti, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, has seen the impact firsthand in his native Kenya. New research ...

Getting AIDS test results from labs to remote villages once took weeks in Mozambique, with the information sent by courier along the impoverished country's terrible roads. The delay could mean death.

Cell phone microscope poised to begin trials in Africa. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2010 / 06 / 100630101043.htm ...

In a little over a decade, Africa has gone from a region with virtually no fixed-line telecoms infrastructure to a continent where one in six of the billion inhabitants now owns a cell phone. But ...

Interview - The rapid spread of cell phones in Africa and the rollout of broadband Internet services are narrowing the digital divide between Africa and developed countries, bringing enormous ...

Eighty percent of sub-Saharan Africa’s 800 million people should have access to mobile telephones by the end of the decade, double the current rate, although government help is needed to reach ...

It's easy enough to monitor home power consumption, but few people think about the energy impact of talking on cell phones for hours on end. After all, cell towers have to be powered by something ...

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