The development of cell phone use in Africa and the Middle East is spectacular. It was one of the factors in the “Arab Spring”. I think I read a statistic that cell phone ownership in the Muslim countries ranged from 30 to 70 percent depending on the country.
I Africa I have read of people saving up to buy a cell phone and then renting it out by the minute to people in their village as a regular and growing business. It will be fascinating to see how all this plays out.
Having seen how all this has played out, am wondering if we have a cutoff switch. Just in case?