Number of Mobile Phone Subscribers on the Rise

Publisher:
NTVKenya
Publication Date:
8 November 2011
Tags:
Africa, ICT and Telecom, Economy, Business and Finance

Africa is now the second most connected region in the world, if you count the number of subscribers. There were over 616 million mobile subscriptions in the continent, just over half the entire population of the continent. And in related news, Safaricom's M-Pesa money transfer product is still bringing in accolades globally. Here are the mobile news you need to know today.

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