蜜芽传媒

Africa has the fastest growing mobile data market in the world, but the cost is high. Alastair Jones of New Street Research tells us that a lack of competition in some markets is one of the causes. Nicholas Naidoo from mobile company Vodacom says that data costs could be reduced if analogue television signals were switched off to free up mobile spectrum. And Ridwhan Khan, chief executive of mobile phone manufacturer Mobicel explains the difference between his company's $30 smartphone and a high end Apple iPhone or Samsung device. Also in the programme, Nigeria is to join many countries in Africa by signing up to the Africa Continental Free Trade Agreement. We hear how the move could be a big boost to the free trade process on the continent. Our reporter in Madrid tells us how Spain's state-owned railway company RENFE is spending millions of dollars to clean up graffiti from its carriages. Plus our regular US economic commentator, Irwin Stelzer of the Hudson Institute, discusses the economic platforms of the Democratic candidates vying to take on Donald Trump next year for the US presidency.