{"id":286,"date":"2017-02-07T10:53:42","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T08:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/?p=286"},"modified":"2017-02-07T10:53:42","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T08:53:42","slug":"mobile-is-massive-for-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/mobile-is-massive-for-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile Is Massive for Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

I lived in Tanzania for five and a half years. \u00a0In that time, I saw some phenomenal changes in the penetration of mobile products. \u00a0I pulled some stats today to show what I mean.<\/p>\n

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In 2009, when I arrived, there were 4,192,683 mobile subscribers. \u00a0When I left, if 2015, there were 53,843,917 subscribers. \u00a0The country went from less than 10% mobile penetration to over 100% penetration in 5 years. \u00a0If someone told you that mobile phones would have the biggest impact on Africa, you would have said they were crazy. \u00a0But now, thanks to mobile, people can access services they never had before. \u00a0Mobile has been massive for Africa, and I’m proud to have been a part of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I lived in Tanzania for five and a half years. \u00a0In that time, I saw some phenomenal changes in the penetration of mobile products. \u00a0I pulled some stats today to show what I mean.     In 2009, when I arrived, there were 4,192,683 mobile subscribers. \u00a0When I left, if 2015, there were 53,843,917 subscribers. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288,"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions\/288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}