Why the Phone village in Africa?

Village phone in Western Mali
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBb8mto_xIk
Iam starting my discussion to say, it is a pre-time phone village in African and what is the Village Phone Program? It is an innovative initiative that aims to extend access to telephones to rural areas while at the same time promoting entrepreneurship (a source of doing business) and creating jobs. The program is under way in Uganda, Cameroon, Rwanda and Nigeria. Village Phones offer a viable strategy for increasing teledensity in developing countries and helping the poor lift themselves out of poverty. Most Village Phone participants are women living in remote areas. The notion of Phone Village came with the help of Grameenphone; Grameen Telecom operates the national Village Phone programme, alongside its own parent Grameen Bank and the International Finance Corporation (IFC), acting as the sole provider of telecommunications services to a number of rural areas. I think according to the video I watched and other literature on the net on the same topic, the programe now is doing very well in Uganda and Rwanda because it gives an opportunity to remote areas to communicate with urban areas. However; the question is: Is it a solution to Africans communication problems. Is the problem in Africa is a village phone? I know Africa very well. Majority(90%0) of the population is living in or under poverty line in the remote areas where there is a non- existence of tangible /real infrastructure, starting from getting a pure potable water, a physician in a clinic for treating a headache and ending by getting a lorry to load your local organic products to consumers. The village phone can make an easy virtual community that reduces/ lifts the burden of communications among the relatives in disperse far areas. Just look at Africa from North Egypt straight south to South Africa Republic, then turn right to Senegal on Atlantic Ocean and then left to African Horn on Indian Ocean. African governments are required to adopt outreach programs to provide the rural areas with real infrastructures, not only DSL cables, infrastructures, like transportation (tarmac roads), education, health, electricity, shelters- and water. Imagine! Travelling by local buses or Lorries in sub-Saharan Africa is nearly a mystical experience. If you want to taste the "real Africa", this will be your baptism. As a rule, buses in Africa are old, full and stop in every group of huts on the way. African still needs real communication more than virtual community which helps mobile phones providers, like Mobile Telephone Networks South Africa (MTN) to make money on the shoulder of the poor in a pretense of getting connected with world, living in small world village and disseminating information. MTN is conquering Africa by building lots of Towers, using fiber optic cables in very remote areas as a way to promote their business there. The world as a community is living in an imbalanced situation of those who have lots and those who do not have any. The balanced situation can be obtained when the whole community come together to help each other to shorten the divide across the globe. The well developed countries should provide huge assistance to underdeveloped countries, such as releasing the huge debts and helping in sustainable rural development. Otherwise they will be left behind to communicate with deprived continents and Phone village is a not yet programme. http://www.janchipchase.com/blog/archives/2007/01/village_phone.html