The Chief
Executive Officer, Airtel
Nigeria Mr Segun Ogunsanya has said that the smart phones and tablets are mobile
tools in the development of the economy that will be enabled for mobile connectivity
to see the end of desktop and stationary soon, DigitalSENSE Business News
report.
Ogunsanya
made this assertion at an information communication technology (ICT) lecture in
Lagos, and stressed that in 2013 almost a billion mobile phones were shipped
into the country out of 1.5 billion in the total devices enabled for
communication.
“If you
look at desktop coming from 134 million in 2013, now it’s going down to 123
million by 2017. All these are being taken care of by smart phones and tablets
in what I called mobile connectivity. Everybody wants to be mobile. Everybody
wants to be connected when you are mobile. Smart phones and tablets will be
enabled for mobile connectivity and you can see the end of desktop and
stationary. They want mobility that goes with small mobile phones,” Ogunsanya
said.
He said
that people no longer want to any other wallet
on them as everything is either in smart
card or in their mobile phone and stressed that in countries such as
Kenya and Morocco people no longer go to offices to get registered for elections as such is done through mobile phones.
He mentioned
other areas of usage of the devices in other climes to include weather forecast in Malaysia, Uganda, India,
and China, emergency real time response in Turkey, USA, and France, while in
Nigeria the mobile phone has helped in the distribution of fertilizer by
mobility link to an ICT company that assist farmers to have access to fertilizer.
The
Airtel Nigeria boss informed DigitalSENSE Business News
that soon mobile phone would become everything from radio, Television, wallet
and boarding pass because with the mobile phone one can now do everything.
He said that
Nigeria don’t want to want to be left behind, and commended the Osun state
government for introducing Opon Imo , which is an online repository of knowledge in telecommunication for
students.
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