I think Google’s approach will be to do what they’ve been doing in other territories – get people ‘hooked’ on their services and then slowly roll out more. What they roll out, where and in what order will likely depend on the network environment, the handset environment and at what points Google Search ‘sticks’.
As you rightly state, always sensible when talking Africa and mobile to start with the lowest common denominator – the text message.
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