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This research studies the effects of wireless mobile phone technology on economic growth in Nigeria. Nigeria is made up of 37 states including the capital territory. The phone ownership and subscription rate per state increased with the availability of wireless mobile phone technology. After deregulation of telecom industry, wireless technology has become widely available, e.g., cellular phone ownership rate per state rose to approximately 80 percent of the population in 2015. This study shows that the availability of wireless mobile phone technology helps to reduce the cost of learning and implementing world technology frontier and thus that it promotes smoother transfer of technology from technologically-advanced countries to Nigeria and brings significant growth in the economy Using the industry-level (NAICS) and the state-level (37) data in two respective econometric models, the study finds that the availability of wireless technology increased transfer of technology measured by the volume of imports and spurred growth in Nigeria. Moreover, it finds that the benefit of the wireless technology is greater for lower income groups and thus the technology helped to reduce distributional inequality of economic benefit.
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