BBC Wap use flourishing in Africa
Africa, in particular Nigeria, is dominating international mobile phone access to the BBC’s website.
According to July’s statistics, 61% of the BBC’s international Wap users came from Nigeria and 19% from South Africa.
Africa is the world’s largest-growing mobile phone market with unreliable landlines encouraging the growth.
Mobile phone providers in many African countries have only recently begun rolling out Wap-enabled handsets.
And the large take up of BBC news via mobiles in Nigeria contrasts starkly with the relatively small number of users accessing the internet via pcs – hampered by slow and unreliable landlines.
