Mobile Phone Use in West Africa: Gambian Statistics

I wanted to share with you a very interesting study coming from Centre 
for Development Informatics (U of Manchester) on mobile usage in Gambia.
http://ict4dblog.wordpress.com/2011/01/30/mobile-phone-use-in-west-africa-gambian-statistics/

I found particularly interesting the rural/urban differences. These data 
are very important imho, and inline with my own recent experience in 
senegal, mali, burkina. i want to cite just two that are critical for me:
Main problem (of those reporting a problem) 	
urban: Cost (87%) 	
rural: Network availability (98%)

Help you to get money/resources? 	
urban: 28% 	
rural: 40%

Use SMS texting 	
urban: 69% 	
rural: 4%

Steph
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