BBC wap use flourishing in Africa

According to the BBC this week, Africa (and in particular Nigeria) is dominating international mobile phone access to its website. In July the West African giant was responsible for a whopping 61% of international users. A further 19% were from South Africa.

Interestingly the large take up of BBC news via mobiles in Nigeria contrasts starkly with the relatively small number of users accessing the internet via PCs - hampered by slow and unreliable landlines.

Mobile content provision via WAP has huge potential and benefit, and was the foundation of my recent application to the Reuters Digital Vision Programme at Stanford. As more and more WAP-enabled handsets circumvent the globe, SMS may finally find itself with a serious challenger..!

The full BBC article is available here.