Across Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), Internet penetration has lagged behind developed countries. Within countries in SSA, this divide exists between urban and rural areas with the offline population largely in rural areas. Mobile technologies have been identified as a means of leapfrogging the...

Although mobile phone subscription rates in Nigeria have grown significantly since its inception in the early 2000s, over half of the population remains unconnected. As the focus of governments and mobile carriers shift to driving Internet adoption, mobile phones serving as a facilitating...

Mobile technologies are known to be a key contributor to socio-economic growth and productivity across the globe. Within the mobile industry, continuous improvements such as smarter devices, faster connections speeds, larger bandwidths and a plethora of applications (or “apps”) are...