Today at the GSM Association (GSMA) Mobile Innovation Marketplace — Americas, Microsoft Corp. announced the Connected Services Accelerator Program, a series of projects designed to incubate, and ultimately commercialize, new types of consumer, business and mobile services through collaboration with independent software vendors (ISVs), developers and operators.

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Baseline surveys showed that, the users of the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM)spend over $68, 000, 000 (sixty-eight million dollars) daily for phone calls in Nigeria, the second largest mobile market in Africa after South Africa.