A substantial decline in communications cost is supposed to happen in the countries of South Africa and Zambia. This is after the authorities of both countries made decisions and announcements regarding the mobile inter connection fees set by all the telecom service providers.

The ICASA and the Zambia ICT Authority, the respective telecom regulators of both the countries, have declared that they would be intervening in the working of these telecom service providers because of the high mobile inter connection fees that they have imposed.

The proposal put forward by ICASA states that the fee that is presently set at 0.90

The global telecom community is increasingly being attracted towards Ghana as the market potential of Ghana is suddenly becoming clear. Ghana has one of the highest levels of penetration rates in terms of internet. It has an average penetration of about 5% in the urban areas in terms of internet, in a continent which doesn’t have an average penetration of more than 1%. The country has close to 65% penetration in mobile telephony. However, close study reveals that many people are having connections to multiple networks. Hence, 65% may not be that realistic a figure.

However, in all this the penetration in rural areas is still really low

People of Africa do not enjoy the benefits of digital media because of the extremely low usage of internet in the continent. Despite being the second largest continent in the world, Africa has an internet penetration of only 4% of the world. The rest of the world takes the cake with 96%.

Isis Nyongó, the Development Manager for Google Kenya Business, recently said in a press statement that it is necessary to boost the internet penetration in Africa so as to increase the amount of benefits that are enjoyed by all the subscribers.

She told the press that there arose a need for a big investment for making internet affordable and accessible for the subscribers. This would go a long way to increase the number of subscribers.