The beginning of Africa’s long, slow transition away from SMS – new browser kids on the block making mobile Internet access easier →

At the end of 2011, there were the first signs of smartphone use on SMS: for the first time in some countries, rather than the volume of SMS growing inexorably, it declined for the first time. Russell Southwood looks at how wider use of mobile Internet may affect SMS volumes in Africa and at two of the new generation of interfaces designed to make it easier for Africans to use the mobile Internet.

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Source: balancingact-africa.com
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