This story aired on PBS NewsHour on July 5, 2010.
He says fewer than 1 percent of households here or in South Africa’s rural areas can afford landlines. People are forced to use prepaid cell phones at rates three times what Americans pay for similar service, even though people here earn much less. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports on one man’s efforts to bridge the digital divide in South Africa.
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