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The GSM Association is extending it $30 handsets programme to Nigeria, in collaboration with MTN Nigeria.
Lagos, Nigeria - The GSM Association is extending it $30 handsets programme to Nigeria, in collaboration with MTN Nigeria.
Nigeria will benefit from a programme by the GSM Association (GSMA) for handsets costing below N4, 050 ($30) aimed to make mobile telephony affordable to the unconnected segments of the population in developing nations.
The GSMA programme which is led by Erik Aas, chief executive of Grameen Phone Limited of Bangladesh, is supported by 10 other leading operators in emerging market which includes MTN Group and Vodacom. The operators are expected to order about six million of these low cost handsets from Motorola.