How MTN and Orange, two of the biggest mobile carriers in Africa, are trying to expand internet access in the continent by selling ~$20 phones powered by KaiOS
About half of humanity don't have internet access, and a lot of those people are in Africa. Enter a $20 device with smartphone brains and a five-day battery. Tweets: @trevornoren , @whiteafrican , and @shiraovide Tweets: Trevor Noren / @trevornoren : “About 1/2 of humanity don't have internet access...Boosting a poor country's mobile internet use by 10% correlates with an average 2 percentage-point increase in GDP” https://www.bloomberg.com/... https://twitter.com/... Erik Hersman / @whiteafrican : “The cohort of 800 million offline people spread across the continent's 54 countries is younger and growing faster than most, but incomes are lower and a larger share of residents live in rural areas that are tough to wire for internet” https://www.bloomberg.com/... https://twitter.com/... Shira Ovide / @shiraovide : For @BW, I wrote about the latest in a long line of strategies to expand internet access to the 50% of the world without it.Sometimes innovation is a $20 cell phone with smartphone brains in the body of 1990s candy bar phone. https://www.bloomberg.com/...