Friday, May 18, 2007

Tax, power, prices limit rural Africa mobile use

(Reuters) - Africans in rural areas still have limited access to telecoms services, but lower taxes, cheaper handsets and less costly power for transmitting stations would boost their numbers, operators said on Friday.

Mobile phone use has surged in the world's poorest continent, but the penetration rate is still only 21 percent of the total population, and subscribers are mostly in urban areas.


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