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Africa is the fastest growing wireless comm market and VODA is there

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2013/01/28/africa-s-mobile-tech-boom.html

Safaricom, which is now owned 40 percent by the U.K.’s Vodaphone,

The Kenyan company Safaricom launched a service called M-PESA in 2007 that makes mobile phones all-in-one credit cards and bank branches. Today, Africa continues to develop mobile innovations that far outpace those of the United States, and these advances are building the continent’s new narrative: the world’s fastest-growing economies, a new consumer class, rising global influence, and rapid modernization.

http://www.howwemadeitinafrica.com/chinese-mobile-phone-company-tecno-explains-why-it-only-does-business-in-africa/23521/

Some African countries are now past 100% mobile penetration. Are you expecting the mobile devices market to start shrinking?

For the next five to 10 years, we expect Africa to remain the fastest growing market in the world.

Kenya leads the continent in mobile money transfers – with 8.5 million users of the service. After the Nairobi government eliminated the 16 percent general sales tax on mobile handsets two years ago, handset purchases have skyrocketed by more than 200 percent, GSMA noted.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-09/vodafone-africa-becomes-profit-machine.html

lots of good stuff in the bloomberg article