Vodafone offers portable mobile-phonechargers to Tanzania�s 'off-grid� users

According to The Telegraph, Vodafone is launching Ready Set chargers this month across Tanzania, which can be powered by a bicycle dynamo or a solar panel.

Tens of millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa have mobile phone handsets, but are effectively barred from using them because they have nowhere handy to charge them.

Around 600m mobile phone users living �off-grid� spend $10bn a year travelling to somewhere so they can charge them, or powering their handsets with car batteries.

Read full article. Above image from Kiwanja.net

emily | 11:09 AM | Mobile phone projects - Developing World |
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