The Race for an African-Made Mobile Phone
With the hope of being the primary provider of high-speed and long-lasting mobile phones throughout Africa, telecom companies, governments and upstart entrepreneurs in various nations across the continent have announced their intention to bring an Africa-made phone to market. The motivations behind the race are two-fold: to compete with big, imported brands and to build out the technological interests of the general population. Also, by improving the continent’s “homegrown” technologies, infrastructure and manufacturing, the job market would see improvement. Read more about the efforts at Quartz.
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