Industry body urges cheaper handsets to bring more Gabonese online

GSMA is pushing for affordable smartphones in Gabon as a way to narrow the country's mobile internet gap.

The GSMA, the mobile industry association, has called for affordable smartphones in Gabon as a way to close the country's mobile internet gap. The item is flagged as a call for action still in development, not a shipped program.

The reasoning is that the price of a handset is often a gate to getting online. If a capable phone costs less, more people can reach information, learning and services that otherwise sit out of reach. That bears on knowledge directly and on connection too, since a phone is how many people reach messaging, calls and public services.

The source report is brief and we could not reach it, so we have no figures, timelines, named partners or specific policy proposals to share. The detail sits with Telecompaper's reporting.

Source: Google News