Cellular phones in Mozambique: Who has them and who doesn't?

Roland Brouwer and Lídia Brito

Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2012, vol. 79, issue 2, 231-243

Abstract: Cellular phones are considered one of the success stories of contemporary technology diffusion: there are three billion cellular telephones globally, and just over six billion people. This article describes the distributional boundary of the cellular telephone enterprise, as we see it in data from Mozambique. A telephone survey of mobile phone users there revealed that men outnumbered women, especially at higher levels of service and that most were urban, with a particular concentration in the capital city. Thus while pre-paid telephone plans have made basic cellular service affordable to many Mozambicans, the lack of rural infrastructure stills puts access out of the reach of a majority. In addition, pre-paid users pay more per minute for their service—probably not a fair situation for the poor families that tend to take this route to telecommunications.

Keywords: Mozambique; Communication; Technology; Inequality; Income; Gender; Education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2011.08.006

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