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Text messaging, or SMS, is universally available to mobile owners the world over, and is relatively cheap, direct and gets around many of issues of literacy. Although based more in the administrative side of education, a number of African countries allow students to obtain their exam results by SMS, or check whether they have successfully enrolled on a course. This “Opinion” article for Didactics World, a monthly trade magazine that offers critical coverage of spending patterns, market trends, equipment, technology and other pertinent investment decisions in the education sector, looks at mLearning and its implications and potential in developing countries.