This is the first article of the two-part series: “How the Mobile Phone Revolutionized Africa”. This first part focuses on Banking and Education, and the upcoming second part will focus on Disaster Management, Agriculture, and Health.






In the banking and finance industries, reliability and security is critical. With numerous transactions occurring across multiple bank branches, secure communication platforms that can deliver sensitive information is an essential requirement. The communication platform must also be flexible and able to adjust with the bank’s growth, and adequately adapt with increasing data volumes and give a stable connection to distant branches and ATMs.