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Cellphone growth in Africa
Cellphones Catapult Rural Africa to 21st Century. "On this dry mountaintop, 36-year-old Bekowe Skhakhane does even the simplest tasks the hard way. Fetching water from the river takes four hours a day. To cook, she gathers sticks and musters a fire. Light comes from candles. But when Ms. Skhakhane wants to talk to her husband, who works in a steel factory 250 miles away in Johannesburg, she does what many in more developed regions do: she takes out her mobile phone."

New York Times
Posted by Richard on August 30, 2005 04:05 PM