As a company serving the cell operators, Upstream has an interest in the major operators recognizing the variance in the developingmarket: the company asserts that because no Apple-Android duopoly exists in emerging markets, operators can play a greater role in how they develop which would mean more investment and thus more business for Upstream.
Calling from Ethiopia, where he was attending a mobile operators conference, Veremis said that what he sees in Africa and in other developingmarket is a leapfrog past the desktop phase that powered American companies like Dell and Gateway in the 1990s.
