Namibian school boy invents phone that doesn’t use airtime (Photo)

A Namibian grade 12 learner has invented a phone that doesn’t need airtime to make calls. The schoolboy identified as Simon Petrus, in the country’s Ohagwena Region came up with a sim-less mobile phone that does not require airtime to make calls to solve the country’s problem.

Petrus, is a pupil of Abraham Iyambo Senior Secondary School. He created the phone using spares from a phone and television set.  See photo of the boy and his phone below: