Interesting piece on AfriGadget about mobile phone hacking in rural Africa:
One of the more interesting innovations is the development of a dual SIM card hack so that users can access multiple carriers.
This product has two SIM card slots in a single phone – primarily to support price sensitive/prudent consumers who wish to optimise their call costs by maintaining SIM cards from two different phone operators. As in many countries – calls to a customer using a different Ghanaian operator cost slightly more than those on the same network.
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What’s so african about these dual sim thingies? They’re probably of Chinese origin and can be bought virtually everywhere. I got mine from ebay, years ago. Used it in Germany.
My thoughts exactly, these dual sim card holders are manufactured in China and have been for at least 5 years.
They have absolutley nothing to do with Africa!