Report
The continent of Africa is experiencing a mobile boom, both in infrastructure investment and user adoption. In many communities in the region, virtually every telephone is a mobile, and mobiles are providing affordable connectivity to millions of people who previously had limited access to telecommunications of any kind. As a recent report from Vodafone has highlighted, the social and economic impacts of this boom are numerous; mobiles offer better access to markets, improved security, and the comfort of speaking with loved ones over great distances. This report was written by Jonathan Donner, a Researcher at Microsoft Research India where he studies the social and economic impacts of wireless and mobile technologies in developing countries.