For that, text and voice SMS is the preferred method.

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Younger users tend to prefer the more spontaneous SMS or chat systems as a primary method of communicating.

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And, to give residents a more consistent method for reading and responding to email from their mobiles, Google just launched Gmail SMS in Ghana, Nigeria and Kenya.

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