According to him, to bridge financial inclusion gap, deepen connectivity and improve the economy, access to cheaper data services and handsets are crucial. The GTB CEO noted that the infrastructure should not a challenge for telcos to provide cheaper cost of data as done for per second billing call rate. He pointed out that service providers, especially the MNOs, now make more money from data services than before but yet to reduce the cost. According to him, access to cheaper data services and handsets are crucial will do the magic if adequately explored.He stressed that there are now cheaper handsets, “but data cost is still very high. It is sophisticated because the future app will perform more than one thing.

Source: The Guardian February 06, 2019 01:41 UTC