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Cellphones transformed Africa, by leapfrogging over the need to build wired infrastructure, even before many people had their own phone at all, let alone smartp
by lupire 3y ago
Cellphones transformed Africa, by leapfrogging over the need to build wired infrastructure, even before many people had their own phone at all, let alone smartphone! A shared dumbphone at the post office was like the Oracle of Delphi, spreading information about weather for farmer, transmitting money, amd other applications.
- alephnerd 3y agoAgreed! A similar thing happened in India as well in the early 2010s, which is why a lot of telcos in Africa are owned by Indian conglomerates as they saw a similar opportunity and market structure, and also because of some corruption by paying off and grooming Museveni, Ruto, and Hassan There seems to be a lot of meddling by both India and China in East Africa