and family and trade to email by bringing two-way email to their entire mobile customer base. In May 2010 ForgetMeNot Africa helped Safaricom, Kenya’s largest telecommunications operator, give almost 9 in 10 of the population’s mobile phone subscribers access to email and online chat on their standard mobile phones when it rolled out its Kipokezi service. Prior to the launch of Kipokezi fewer than one in ten Kenyans had accessed the Internet but the new service enabled more than one third of Kenya’s population to exchange email and online chat messages. Kenya’s number of mobile phone subscriptions has grown from just over 125,000 in 2000 to more than 17 million ten years later. In September 2010 ForgetMeNot Africa, in partnership with Rapid Communications, deployed its technology with Kenya's yu, the mobile brand of Kenya's third largest telecoms network Essar Telecom Kenya. Using the Message Optimiser technology yu launched the Peperusha service, enabling it to bring mobile email and online chat on first-generation mobile phone handsets to its entire 1.6 million subscriber base. In October 2010 ForgetMeNot Africa enabled 25 million Nigerians, 40 per cent of the country's mobile subscribers, to access email and online chat on standard SMS-capable mobile phone by deploying its technology with Glo Mobile, part of the Globacom group, Nigeria's largest independent mobile network. The launch rocketed Nigerians' access to the Internet as previously only 24 million of the country's 150 million population had ever been online. In November 2010 ForgetMeNot Africa launched its first service in Francophone Africa with Warid Congo, in the Central African state of Republic of the Congo. The launch of the French version of the Message Optimiser technology transformed Warid Congo's 450,000 subscribers' basic mobile phones into virtual smartphones, enabling them to send and receive email and online chat messages on any SMS-enabled mobile phone. In February 2011 ForgetMeNot Africa's technology was deployed by Econet Wireless Zimbabwe to transform the first generation handsets of its five million mobile phone subscribers into virtual smartphones. In June 2010, only one in eight Zimbabweans (1.4 million people) had access to the internet, according to the International Telecommunication Union. The eTXT service made email correspondence possible as a low-cost solution for large companies and small businesses, unifying both urban and rural areas of Zimbabwe. ForgetMeNot Africa launched the first internet-free Facebook, email and online chat service for Portuguese speaking Africans when its technology was deployed by