The rise of the mobile phone overcomes a lot of these issues, but the mobile internet in many MENA countries is not that same as in western markets with many consumers using low cost android smartphones and some still relying on feature phones to access the internet, often on 2G networks.
Take an example of Lydec app, a simple android app where the user could pay electricity and water plus some optional features eg invoices and news, this app size exceeds 58 MB (> 100mb after installing it.) which could be compressed for less than 20mb by deleting redundant resources, optimizing heavy images, removing unused libraries and enabling proguard/R8
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