It's often written about that mobile banking is huge in Africa, but how huge is it? Here's an awesome map via the Economist and World Bank that shows you how the percent of adults that say they've used a mobile phone to pay bills or send money in the last year. There...
It's been a busy week in the mobile world - here are some of the stories that caught my eye this week: Chetan Sharma, an independent mobile analyst, released "Global mobile Market update". It's a good read. I'll embed his presentation at the end of this blog - it's...
Hello! Here are a few of the more interesting mobile related articles I've found recently:Mobile web is coming to China in a big way - Baidu, the Chinese Google has announced it's new operating system called Bandu Yi OS. They've teamed up with Foxconn to churn out $160...
Hello, I've been away for a while which is a shame. I found blogging a great way to share what I've been up to and interesting articles I found. So, I'm going to try to start blogging once again. To start with I've decided to do a nice and simple blog post by sharing...
I'm sitting here on a crowded, slightly smelly carriage on the Piccadilly line. I'm on my way to Heathrow airport for a trip to the US. Last time I was on this route I was just about to fly to Kenya to learn about the mobile revolution that is sweeping across Africa...
I started this blog because I'm excited by the massive potential of mobile devices in Africa. They are being used for incredibly exciting and important things - like helping farmers get fair prices for their crops and making sure mothers and children get the right health...
Benedict Evans of Enders Analysis has been busy over the Christmas break. He just blogged some interesting new stats on mobile usage on Facebook. His big stat is that Facebook now has 300 million monthly mobile app users. That's HUGE! Here's a graph of the figures...
When I was in Kenya earlier this year I thought for a while there where a huge number of networks - this was based on the huge number of adverts I saw across the country. They were everywhere: painted on buildings, pinned up in bars, advertised in shops.. But then I...
Smartphones are exciting. With oodles of apps and relatively high speed Internet browsing they have massive potential to improve the lives of hundreds of millions of people. But, they are not what's driving the African mobile revolution. VisionMobile just released a...
