Desert.That is greater than the number of users in the United States and European Union.
Samia Melhem works for the World Bank to increase
information technologies in Africa.She says mobile phones are
the fastest growing technology on the continent.
“Faster than TV,and definitely faster than electricity.More people have access to mobile phones and therefore
communication.More people have Internet access today in
Africa than they have access to water,clean water,or even sanitation (卫生设备).So we can say that this has been the most significant revolution in terms of changing the African landscape and how people live their daily life.”
CNN television recently named seven ways of life that have been revolutionized because of mobile phones.They include political activism,education,entertainment,disaster management,agriculture and health.
Another area is banking.Reports say half or more of the adults in Gabon,Kenya and Sudan use mobile money.Rene Mendy sells goods in the streets of Dakar,Senegal.But he never had enough money to open a bank account.
Now he uses a mobile phone banking service called Orange Money.With his telephone,he can add or take out as little as one dollar.He can make payments and send money to family members who live far away.
Orange Money says it serves four million customers in ten countries.The World Bank’s Samia Melhem notes that the French company is facing competition from other mobile banking services.
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