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Mobile Telephone Opportunities

Source: Oxfam

The advent of mobile telephones is revolutionizing commerce and daily life in many developing regions of the world. As the new technology extends telephone access to areas unreachable by landline, and the cost of mobile service continues to drop, more and more of the world's poor are getting connected. In Africa alone there are now twice as many mobiles as landline phones.

Sale of new mobiles is growing exponentially, and innovative new uses are being tried. In Senegal, fishermen negotiate by mobile phone with fish brokers for sale of the day's catch before their boats even return to port. In Bangladesh, woman entrepreneurs purchase inexpensive mobiles and make them available to their neighbors on a pay-per-call basis.

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