Network World: New Services Spur Sierra Leone Mobile Sector

The telecom sector of Sierra Leone is just constantly improving. While I was at JH for 6 months, I had a "mobile" to use which came in handy more than a few times. I sometimes joke that Sierra Leone has better mobile coverage than Iowa...which actually might not be that far off, in my opinion anyway. :-)


Though mobile phone services were once deemed too expensive for ordinary citizens in Sierra Leone, they are on the rise, thanks to creative efforts on the part of service providers.
Attitudes toward mobile services started changing two to three years ago, though mobile operator Celtel first entered the country’s small market in early 2000, followed by Millicom (now tiGo).

Telecom is the most thriving sector, after mining, in Sierra Leone, according to a report by Maxwell Massaquoi, an expert in telecom business support and operation support systems. Mobile phone use in Sierra Leone grew by 18 percent from 2006 to 2007, reaching 110,000 users, the report said.

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