Mobile communication as a technology has two faces. First, it's a glitzy parade of smart phones, 3G, wireless internet, built-in cameras boasting megapixels of resolution and other things you would not have expected to find in a tiny device in your pocket. Second, it is a largely unheralded way of finally bringing modern communication capabilities to people in remote parts of the world. Techies are rarely fascinated with the old or the trivial. It is not surprising then that about 9% of the mobile user community who use mobile internet make the headlines, but the fact that there are 600 million mobile subscribers in China and half of them ... To read this entire article you must be a MultiLingual subscriber. For immediate access to the current issue, subscribe to the digital version. Already a subscriber?

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