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30 June 2006

Stephanie on: Alex, Pig, GSM and the Digital Divide

Stephanie has this great article looking into the impact of mobile phones in emerging markets. Emerging markets are a large part of the book I'm working on, since the numbers of folks who will take the next billion phones* who are from India, China, or Afica should make us wake up to the impending (already happening?) global and local social and economic impact.

Link: Keitai / Alex, Pig, GSM and the Digital Divide.

One of the topics I find the most fascinating in mobile was again in the news yesterday with the imminent arrival of the 2 billion-th GSM subscriber—mostly due to astronomically high subscriber numbers in emerging markets.

*Stephanie, I think we are past 2B already, and 4B is already expected by 2010

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