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Richard Allaway

60% of the world's population now has a mobile phone | Mail Online - 3 views

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    Mobile phone use has exploded in the last seven years, according to a U.N report. The number of global subscriptions quadrupled from around 1billion in 2002 to 4.1billion at the end of last year.
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Treehugger: 100+ Solar-Powered Ericsson Cell Phone Base Stations Coming to Africa - 0 views

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    The idea of using renewable energy to power cell phone base stations in rural areas is nothing new. The latest variation on this comes from Ericsson and Orange Guinea Conakry which plan to deploy more than 100 solar-powered base stations:
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YouTube - Financial transactions and mobile technology in emerging eco - 0 views

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    M-PESA is a new Safaricom service enabling money transfer using a mobile phone. Kenya is the first country in the world to use this service, which is offered in partnership between Safaricom and Vodafone.
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BBC NEWS | Africa | Riding Tunisia's information superhighway by bus - 0 views

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    This bus, like many others, has been transformed into a mobile internet centre, and it travels around Tunisia teaching students of all ages how to log on, surf the net, and obtain information electronically that can help them in their studies and in finding jobs.
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BBC NEWS | South Asia | 'Telephone ladies' connect Bangladesh - 0 views

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    One pioneering scheme in Bangladesh has become famous for its "telephone ladies".
Richard Allaway

Global internet users top one billion for the first time | China is number one | The Ec... - 5 views

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    THE number of people going online has passed one billion for the first time, according to comScore, an online metrics company.
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