But our East Africa correspondent says the rebels' brutal tactic of kidnapping children is a clear signal that they haveno intention of laying down their arms.
Nokia's boss, Stephen Elop, says the company will invest heavily in customers in Africa and Asia who have a mobile-phone signal but no internet experience.
So while the phone may have GSM network access on shore (because no CDMA signal is found), that is not the case when you are on a ship because ships provide both GSM and CDMA cell sites.