Ghana has 5,209,398 subscribers and four cellular networks viz Areeba, Tigo, Onetouch and Kasapa. With a strong mobile market, Ghana has great potential for further growth in mobile service provision. SMS messages sent in Ghana are said to have grown from 22,000 to over 130,000 in recent years.
Ghana are hosting a major competition, 12 contestants are going head to head to win a school scholoarship at a major university. The general public, including the audience in the studio and people watching at home can send in an SMS stating which person they wish would be sent home. This will take place over an 8 week period. While watching this competition the public also has the chance to send in a premium SMS for the chance to win various prizes throughout the 12 week competition.
Learn More: http://www.m-bill.net/coverage/sms/premium/africa/ghana
Friday, 12 September 2008
Monday, 1 September 2008
Ghana Market place becoming more Mobile
Through web pages and text messages TradeNet allows rural farmers to advertise their merchandise to an international market and find the fairest price for their crops.
Many people visiting Africa for the first time are surprised to see so many mobile phones, especially in rural areas. Even in the smallest villages they see numerous advertisements from mobile operators. However, estimates suggest that by 2010, half of Africa’s population will own mobile phones and more than 90% of communities will be covered by a signal. The power of those figures cannot be underestimated. The big question remains: how can this access be a successful channel for delivering key information to a population whose main source of income is agriculture?
Study upon study has revealed that access to good market information can increase revenues for everyone along the supply chain – producers, collectors, traders, transporters and exporters. Until now, it has been difficult and expensive to develop an affordable and efficient way to both collect and distribute relevant market information. The advancement of mobile networks in Africa has changed that and systems are already in place that will help rural farmers get better, fairer prices for their efforts.
Anyone in the world can visit the TradeNet website and search through more than 7000 contacts, hundreds of groups and up to date offers to buy and sell from all over Africa. 800,000 prices from hundreds of markets, spanning a range of countries available to search and compare. There are also searchable news and library sections.
Anyone registered with TradeNet can text information to the website using a set of codes. Here’s how it works. A farmer in northern Ghana is selling 20 tonnes of millet. The farmer sends an sms stating SELL MILO 20MT to TradeNet’s international number and that information is processed by the software and immediately published on the website. The same details are also redistributed to every other user that has signed up to receive alerts on millet sales in Ghana.
Learn More: http://www.m-bill.net/coverage/sms/premium/africa/ghana
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