What are some of the challenges to increasing mobile phone and Internet access?
Wanendeya: On the mobile, one of the issues we face is the very, very high level of taxation. East Africa, for example, has the highest level of taxation on the mobile industry in the world. It is quite difficult to get governments to see that if they reduce the taxes they will reduce the cost of ownership of a handset, thereby increasing the number of people who own one. And if they reduce air-time tax, this will increase the number of people using air-time and overall will generate more money.
