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Leap Frog: Cell Phones are Wallets in Mexico
El Universal, a Mexican newspaper, reported yesterday that by next October Mexicans will be using their mobile phones to buy everything from fast food to newspapers. The program is called Pago-Movil?or Mobile Payment in English?and will be available from six of Mexico?s largest banks and...
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Chinese Stores Sell Phone Time
We’ve talked a lot on NextBillion about the selling and re-selling of mobile phone minutes, whether its the phone ladies of Grameen Telecom or the sari-sari street merchants of Smart Communications. Now Kevin Kelly (of Wired Magazine and Whole Earth Catalog fame) points us to a cool...
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