Anita Akpeere prepared fried rice in her kitchen in Ghana's capital as a flurry of notifications for restaurant orders lit up apps on her phone. ''I don't think I could work without a phone in my line of business,'' she said, as requests came in for her signature dish, a traditional fermented dumpling.
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85% of the sub-Saharan region is covered by networks but only 25% of people use it according to the mobile lobby group GSMA, now a company in Ghana has a plan to close this digital gap.