Articles tagged with: Itu and Rural

Brazil Leads Lat-Am in Deployments, Connections and Demand for WiMAX and 3G Services

..llowing a differential to be charged for the service. However, the situation of MVNO is not entirely clear in Brazil, as although Anatel can authorize network leasing for service offers, the regulator's powers do not include the possibility of r more

Telecom Policy Makers Urged to Focus on Rural Connectivity

..in investing public funds to connect rural people; the relatively low institutional capacity of fledgling ICT ministries and regulators; the focus of some ICT operators on mostly urban markets; poor or non-existent electricity supply in many more

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Ultrasound imaging now possible with a smartphone

..ts Institute of Technology about integrating their probe-smartphone concept into a suite of field trials for medical applications in developing countries. "We're at the point of wanting to leverage what we've done with this technology and more

SMS Tool Underscores Importance of Mobile Technology to Global Development

..ons - built FrontlineSMS and FrontlineForms. Students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology validated the new SMS tool's architecture with the needs of isolated communities in mind. "Technologies that advance social change in the deve more

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Using Mobile Phones to Boost Health Care Provision

..f Cisco, Google, Microsoft, Nokia, and Qualcomm, as well as the Earth Institute, MIT and the UN World Health Organization. "Mobile technology can enable significant progress toward reaching the UN Millennium Development Goals relating to healt more

Mobile Communications Is Uniquely Placed to Drive Economic Growth

.. Jon Fredrik Baksaas, CEO of Telenor Group and Jeffrey Sachs, Director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University, set out how the wider use of mobile broadband services can stimulate growth and help the world recover from the economic crisi more

A Transgendered Mobile Phone

..harities in India which help transgendered people (known as hijras) away from begging and prostitution have signed a deal to set up a mobile phone assembly factory. Nokia, Motorola and Foxconn have sub-contracted assembling of spare parts to th more

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Mobile as Media Platform in the Global South

..neered use of new technologies for media applications in developing countries since running instant message chats live from Baghdad in December 1998 to 14,000 AOL users during US bomb attacks. In 1999, he won the prestigious European Internet J more

Nearly Half a Billion Mobile Financial Services Customers in 2013

..promoters of this market, according to Beccue, will be banking institutions. "Every bank in the world is considering these options," he says. "It's a huge growth area. It allows banks to increase customer �stickiness,' to cut costs and automate more

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Justice Department Settles Civil Contempt Claim Against AT&T

..areas (RSAs) -- two in Kentucky and one in Oklahoma. Pending divestiture, a management trustee was appointed to oversee the businesses to be divested. Under the consent decree and a related court order, AT&T was required to take all steps n more