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The cost of calling home

There鈥檚 a growing market across Africa and beyond for apps helping to cut the calls of international costs to older phones.

If you鈥檙e living thousands of miles from home, how do you keep in touch, especially when your loved ones don鈥檛 have reliable internet?

There鈥檚 a growing market across Africa and beyond for apps helping to cut the costs of international calls to older phones. And some operators have much grander ambitions.

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Presented and produced by Matthew Kenyon

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(Picture: Oluseyi Akinnibosun, Nigerian entrepreneur and app developer who's living in the Netherlands, about to make a call.)

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