Bartamaha (Nairobi):-A mobile phone operator Vodafone has announced what it claims to be the lowest-cost mobile phone on earth. The Vodafone 150 has said at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona that costumers will have access to phone with price of less than US$15, and is meant at developing world.
The services will initially be launched in eight African countries including South Africa, Lesotho, Mozambique, Kenya, Tanzania, Ghana and Congo as well as India and Turkey in Asia and Europe.

Mobile subscribers will reach five billion in this year, with most growth in the developing world, according to the UN predicts.

In Africa, mobile subscribers have reached 448.1 million representing a 20% rise, according to a latest report from Ovum Research.

MTN Nigeria was recorded as the largest mobile operator in Africa and defeated South African representative and Vodacom SA.

The number of mobile subscribers in Kenya is expected to make wonderful growth to 21 million by the end of 2010.

Mobile phones have also become popular way to transfer money, such as services known as Sahal and Zaad in Somalia, which allows you to transfer money.

In Kenya, at least six million customers use M-Pesa service, which allows people to transfer and save money.

More than 11 million customers of Vodafone are using banking services on its system.
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Muhyadin Ahmed Roble, AfricaNews reporter in Nairobi, Kenya

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