This paper reviews roughly 200 recent studies of mobile (cellular) phone use in the
developing world, and identifies major concentrations of research. It categorizes studies …

With staggering swiftness, the mobile phone has become a fixture of daily life in almost
every society on earth. In 2007, the world had over 3 billion mobile subscriptions …

This study examined the contribution of mobile phones to rural livelihoods and poverty
reduction in Morogoro region, Tanzania. The study sample comprised of 310 households …

This article explores the practice of “beeping” or “missed calling” between mobile phone
users, or calling a number and hanging up before the mobile's owner can pick up the call …

Using an ethnographic action research approach, the study explores the challenges,
practices, and emergent framings of mobile-only Internet use in a resource-constrained …

Existing literature offers scant evidence of how BoP (bottom of the pyramid) consumers with
limited product knowledge and interaction with product designers and marketers can co …

This article attempts to quantitatively measure the various influences on mobile phone
adoption at the bottom of the pyramid (BoP) in Bangladesh, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, the …

This chapter explores the connection between mobile sharing and social space. It presents
the overall dialogue on the significance of mobile communication for human, social space by …

In 1980 UNESCO published Many Voices, One World, the report of its International
Commission for the Study of Communication Problems, also known as the MacBride Report …

Four billion people at the base of the economic pyramid live on incomes below $3000 a year
in local purchasing power, and more often than not, lack consistent access to services, such …