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Africa, in particular Nigeria, is dominating international mobile phone access to the BBC’s website. According to July 2006’s statistics, 61% of the BBC’s international Wap users came from Nigeria and 19% from South Africa. “Wap is the one platform where African countries continue to appear in the top five in our statistics,” said BBC developer Gareth Owen. Africa is the world’s largest-growing mobile phone market with unreliable landlines encouraging the growth.