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How to connect the unconnected

Huawei has finally proven the business case for rural telephony.

19 November 2018

Until quite recently, it was said that the people living in the Tabolo village in northern Nigeria could only make a cellphone call if they trekked out of town. There, they could get a signal, but only one leaking over the border from Benin, turning a local call into an expensive international one. Still, it was better than nothing.

That’s a thing of the past, however, because the village now has a new cellphone tower, but not the kind of tower you’ll see in urban areas.

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