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Episode: Ghana firm tackles missed business with mobile internet
Description: Access to mobile internet is driving economic development in Africa but the cost of buying a phone is still a major obstacle for ordinary traders.
85% of the sub-Saharan region is covered by networks but only 25% of people use it according to the mobile lobby group GSMA, now a company in Ghana has a plan to close this digital gap.
Cyril Fianyo is a vegetable farmer in a village called Atabu in Ghanaβs Volta region. He believes his business has the opportunity to expand now he's able to use the internet on his phone.
Fianyo is being shown how to na...