Afghan Cell Phone Use Booming
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About 150,000 people subscribe to cell phone service each month in Afghanistan and there’s “no end in sight” to the growth, the country’s communications minister said Tuesday.
Speaking after the launch of the nation’s fourth cell phone service provider, Amirzai Sangin predicted the telecommunication and information technology sector would “be the engine of growth for Afghanistan.”
Afghanistan’s economy is growing quickly, due mostly to the infusion of foreign aid since the downfall of the Taliban in 2001. But the country’s living standards are among the lowest in the world and it faces mounting security problems.
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Afghanistan is mirroring the opportunity the mobile industry has providing Iraq. A localized, community driven economic driver that provides the broadest and deepest economic development engine.
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Paul