Comments on: Three BILLION dollaaaaaaarz http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2008/04/three_billion_dollaaaaaaarz.html Daily news and opinion for 250,000 industry executives and mobile fanatics Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:14:00 +0100 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tom http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2008/04/three_billion_dollaaaaaaarz.html/comment-page-1#comment-221880 Tom Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:59:18 +0000 http://www.smstextnews.com/?p=6143#comment-221880 While it is true that access to proper sanitation and a regular quantity of food is still as big a problem as it has ever been, the causes have shifted from a worldwide shortfall in production to problems in the supply chain. One part of the solution is communication, and GSM has revolutionised communication. It is simple, it is worldwide, it is standard, and anyone with a GSM phone of the correct band can hop on a network with a SIM. So yes, mobile phones might seem like a convenience and a luxury to us in the rich part of the world, but it is having an impact in poorer parts of the world as well. If you're interested, there are some excellent and very readable economic papers out there on the subject, although a URL escapes me at the moment. While it is true that access to proper sanitation and a regular quantity of food is still as big a problem as it has ever been, the causes have shifted from a worldwide shortfall in production to problems in the supply chain. One part of the solution is communication, and GSM has revolutionised communication. It is simple, it is worldwide, it is standard, and anyone with a GSM phone of the correct band can hop on a network with a SIM.

So yes, mobile phones might seem like a convenience and a luxury to us in the rich part of the world, but it is having an impact in poorer parts of the world as well. If you’re interested, there are some excellent and very readable economic papers out there on the subject, although a URL escapes me at the moment.

]]> By: Patrick http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2008/04/three_billion_dollaaaaaaarz.html/comment-page-1#comment-221858 Patrick Thu, 10 Apr 2008 07:17:41 +0000 http://www.smstextnews.com/?p=6143#comment-221858 If there's a prize going for the 3 billionth person Ewan ... then it was me ;-) If there’s a prize going for the 3 billionth person Ewan … then it was me ;-)

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