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Africa fraud hits mobile phone firms

Mobile phone firms are losing $58bn (£36bn) a year worldwide to billing errors and fraud, a report says.

Juniper Research found operators were "leaking" revenue because the complexity of networks made fraud and errors harder to spot.

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