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Saturday 08 October 2011
Africa celebrates mobile phone anniversary
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A township resident chats on his mobile phone in Hout Bay near Cape Town
Reuters/Mike Hutchings
By William Niba

It's now 25 years since the first mobile phone arrived in Africa. Serge Patrick Sery, project director with Africa Telecom People, speaks about the significance of the anniversary and about how the mobile phone has changed the way we live.
 

tags : Development - Mobile - Telecommunications
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