SMS to Drive African, Middle East Mobile Data Uptake

The way crusade for mobile broadband is going, one would think that such mobile features like the text messages would either go into extinction or at best be brushed aside for a while.The basic functionalities expected to lead the market and incidentally become trendy as the world embraces 3G are Multimedia Messaging, file sharing and mobile data processing among other features.But that is yet to be seen. Basic functionalities like SMS text messaging have actually refused to give up. In fact a recent survey, conducted by world renowned Research centre, Pyramid Research has also revealed that basic SMS text messaging will be a key revenue driver for mobile network operators in Africa and the Middle East over the next five years.To read this report from The Vanguard in full, see:
www.vanguardngr.com/content/view/31678/88/
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