NYT: In Rural Africa, a Fertile Market for Mobile Phones

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/06/science/06uganda.html?_r=1&ref=technology

Africa has the fastest-growing mobile phone market worldwide. Entrepreneurs and development organizations are eagerly seizing the opportunity presented by such growth. They are creating mobile phone applications for profitable and nonprofit ventures across the continent. Millions of Africans, for example, now use their mobile phones to transfer money, turn on water wells, learn soccer game scores and buy and sell goods.