December 22, 2006
Keyna. The DIY phone booth
AfriGadget reports on Safaricom, Kenya's largest cell phone network with about 5 million customers, and it's handset which enable resellers to deliver phone services to the public.
"Next to providing the public with mobile phone booths, these public phones also offer a great small-scale business opportunity for the owners of such handsets. And for those who obtain their pre-paid scratchcards at a wholesale price, there’s a 5% revenue coming along. These public phone booths are just a perfect way of helping people start their own business where the initial starting costs are quite low.
... Another Afrigadget-solution: Cheap fixed-line phones from China which are taken apart, with different displays replacing the one that came along with the phone.
DIY-handsets for public phone booths come at a price range of about Ksh. 2.000 - 5.000 /= (~ US-$ 28 - 70) and are about half of the price the “official” handsets are selling for."
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