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Africa’s bigger economies always attract the worlds attention – especially when it comes to the mobile phone business. To be fair, there is good reason for this interest. The growth rate for cellular services in places such as Nigeria, the DR Congo, South Africa and Tanzania is phenomenal and, by all accounts, worthy of several columns in a newspaper. According to statistics recently published by Informa Telecoms & Media, the African cellular market´s annual growth rate over the next five years will exceed 22%, the highest of any world region. This article, however, studies the often overlooked smaller markets such as Senegal and Mauritius.