Mobile phones in the third world

‘Connecting People’ might just be an ad slogan for a leading mobile manufacturer, but its sentiments hold more weight for millions of people living in third world countries who recently obtained mobile phones. Mobile phones have proliferated much more quickly and deeper into the third world than any other technology based product. Mobile phone technology may be ubiquitous in the developed world, but the effect that these hand held devices are having in the third world was not anticipated. Read more.