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/ 19 November 2008
France Telecom still sees Africa as a lucrative frontier market despite the global financial crisis, a company official said on Tuesday.
African telecommunications operator Moov, controlled by Emirates Telecommunications Corp (Etisalat), launched the first nationwide cellphone coverage in Côte d’Ivoire on Tuesday using Thuraya satellite phone technology.
Centuries before European colonialists carved up Africa, Arab traders marvelled at the profits to be reaped in the fabled lands south of the Sahara. ”In the country of Ghana, gold grows in the sand as carrots do and is plucked at sunrise,” wrote Ibn al-Faqih, a ninth-century chronicler.