Vodafone Mobile Charger Could Save Up to $10 Billion Annually in Travel Costs

Perhaps 500 million to 600 million mobile phone users globally have no ready access to electricity sources to recharge their mobile phones and other devices. Another 750 million "struggle" to find ready electrical sources. 

Those users spend perhaps $10 billion annually traveling to places that do have electricity so they can recharge their devices. But Vodafone now is supplying portable chargers across Tanzania, to help solve that problem. 

The chargers can be powered by a bicycle dynamo or a solar panel. In a trial program conducted last year, mobile phone users with the Ready Setcharger spent an average of 14 percent more time on their phone. Vodafone will be selling the chargers at the places uses typically recharge their phones.