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Where Half The Population Has A Mobile Phone

Mobile coverage, where everyone has a handset, controlling the skies, hacking

Mobile coverage, where everyone has a handset, controlling the skies, hacking. Capetown is hosting a mobile phone conference and in Botswana every other person has a phone; in Africa the mobile phone is being heralded as a life-saving and enhancing tool. A look at the technology that helps guide planes in a crisis.

This is a programme from the 成人快手 World Service Archive and was originally broadcast in 2006.

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26 minutes

成人快手 World Service Archive

This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project