Study: High cost of phones, data cuts off the poor from e-economy

Engineer setting up a mobile transmitter in Othaya town on April 27, 2022. [Mose Sammy, Standard]

The prohibitive cost of smartphones, internet and mobile money services have marginalised Kenya's poor and low-income communities and excluded them from the country's multi-billion shillings digital economy.

This is according to a new study that warns the country's poor are not reaping the economic dividend of increased digitalisation and adoption of technology in the country.