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Articles tagged with: Sim Card and Health
Solar and Wind Power Brings Mobile Phones to Kenyan Village
As part of the Millennium Villages project, Ericsson and operator, Zain have built a green-powered site in the remote village of Dertu in northeastern Kenya. Using a combination of wind and solar power addresses the two key deterrents to building telecommunication infrastructure in remote areas: operating costs and power supply reliability. more
Related Tags: sim, solar-power, roaming, itu, wind, ericsson, zain, villages, solar, africa, emergency, Kenya
Mobile as Media Platform in the Global South
African peasants paint their mobile phone number over their front doors. Indian slum dwellers buy SIM cards to use on friends' handsets. Chinese students spend three months' allowance on a phone they can use to surf the web. Once almost the exclusive domain of rich countries, the mobile revolution has swept through the developing world. An estimated 3.8 billion people, or half the world's population, own a mobile, and most of the growth is taking place in the global South. more
Related Tags: sms, text-messaging, rural, itu, text-messages, earthquake, satellite, bomb, baghdad, fm-radio, aol, farmers, emergency
Mobile telephony to reach 400,000 people in remote African villages
At a press conference in Nairobi, Kenya - Zain, Ericsson and the Earth Institute announced the provision of telecommunications deliverables to the Millennium Villages of Dertu (Kenya), Ruhiira (Uganda) and Molla (Tanzania). more
Related Tags: sony-ericsson, rural, zain, edge, sony, mobile-internet, villages, batteries, united-nations, solar, mobile-learning, charger, emergency, Kenya
Emerging Wireless Markets Force Churn Above 2.5 Percent
Mobile operators face increasing struggles trying to hold onto their customers, according to a new Strategy Analytics report. On a global basis, the rate of subscriber churn posted its ninth consecutive quarter of annual growth, reaching 2.5 percent per month in Q1 2007. The main culprit for this increase is subscriber volatility in emerging markets. more
Related Tags: analytics, strategy-analytics, reliance, churn
Smart Cards Shipments En Route to 20% Growth in 2007
There will be a surge in the shipment of smart cards all over the world, as smart card vendors are likely to ship about 2.9 Billion banking, ID, SIM, and microprocessor smart cards in next year (2007). Just about 2.9 Billion banking, ID, SIM, and other microprocessor smart cards are likely to be shipped by smart card vendors in 2007. This will represent an increase of 20% from the current year (2006), as per Eurosmart - vendor trade association. more
Related Tags: smart-card, smart-cards
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