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Mon Oct 6

• Want to Quit Smoking? Try a Mobile Phone | NextBillion.ne t - Development Through Enterprise: Do people suddenly start spending more money on a product to the detriment of other goods, because they now have better access to it? Or is it because of a change in tastes or educational levels? Or is it thanks to a better price-quality relationship in the two products involved (for example, lower prices, increased reliability, sturdiness or better fit of the product characteristic s to the target customers)? This is a difficult question to answer, because it requires very detailed household-leve l data to take account of all possible interdependent causes.
• allAfrica.com: Africa: Mobile Phones Bridge Colonial Borders: One Network came about as a result of an analysis of the movement of people across borders. The company saw where people were moving and addressed a product to benefit them directly because across Africa many of the borders ? the colonial boundaries ? do not really mark the way people live. Lots of ethnic groups live across borders and they move freely within their communities [across borders]. The concept underlying One Network is that a customer in one country is a customer everywhere. So you stay with your home network wherever you move across Africa?

Tue Sep 30

• Grameenphone Official site :: CIC: The Grameenphone Community Information Center is a shared premise where rural people may access a wide-range of state of art services such as Internet, voice communications , video conferencing and other information services. Set up with technical assistance from the GSM Association, Grameenphone Community Information Centers (GPCICs) are equipped with the minimum of a computer, a printer, a scanner, a webcam and an EDGE-enabled modem, to access the Internet using Grameenphone?s nation-wide EDGE connectivity.

Sun Sep 21

• ENVIRONMENT-SO UTH AFRICA: Pioneering Conservation Project At Risk: Over the past year and a half, considerable money and effort has been invested in conservation in the area. The national Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism has made $435,000 available to the eThekwini Municipality to launch the 'Working 4 Ecosystems 9; project, which was implemented by the Wildlife and Environmental Society of South Africa (WESSA). WESSA trained 70 people from Tshelimnyama and Dassenhoek in nature conservation, including reserve management, removing invasive alien plants, anti-poaching initiatives, use of herbicides, fire management, field patrols, first aid as well as trail development and maintenance. Giba Gorge is significant for conservation purposes because of its large number of rare and endemic plant and animal species.

Thu Sep 18

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Thu Sep 11

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Sat Sep 6

• The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even - Wikipedia: love gas
• Growth Coming in Cambodia's Mobile Sector: Exhibit 1: Mobile Penetration Rates in Southeast Asian Markets, 2006
• India's Mobile VAS Industry
• AMPU (Average Margin Per User) Market Analysis, Data & Figures: For example, prepay customers have been widely assumed as unprofitable. Indeed, NTT DoCoMo lists "low rate of prepaid customers" ; as one of its advantages in the Japanese market. Prepaid customers may be low ARPU. However, they may generate higher revenue per minute than do post-pay customers. In addition, they require no handset subsidies, no billing and collection costs, and produce minimal bad debt. For these reasons, they can generate positive AMPU and with that, profits. Second, even though data services will raise revenues, the full costs of delivering data may exceed such revenues. If so, AMPU will be negative.

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