Mobile phone hacking in Africa

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Mobile phone hacking in Africa
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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.

Mobile Phone Ingenuity in Africa

6 thoughts on “Mobile phone hacking in Africa

  1. Tam Nguyen says:

    How do you do it?

  2. Dirk says:

    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.

  3. hack247 admin says:

    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!

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