For those of us who have a smartphone and have access to the internet 24/7, with all the information that is out there and all the possibilities that it gives us, we tend to take the benefits for granted after a while.
We have to remember that the majority of the 6.7 billion mobile subscriptions around the globe – around 4.5 billion – are still for basic phones, with 1.9 billion for smartphones and 300 million for mobile PCs, tablets and mobile routers.
At the end of 2012, the smartphone penetration in Sub-Saharan Africa was 4 percent. And in 2013 only about 20 percent of the population in the same region was covered by WCDMA/HSPA and 65 percent by GSM/EDGE.
In West African countries like Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone – which have suffered widespread transmission of the Ebola virus – the unique mobile subscriber penetration was 35 percent in Guinea and about 30 percent in Liberia and Sierra Leone in 2013. Continue read at the Networked Society blog.
Mikael Eriksson Björling 
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