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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Indian government to SMS food alerts to poor, forgets poor lack cellphones]]></title><link>http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/19/indian-government-to-sms-food-alerts-to-poor-forgets-poor-lack/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/19/indian-government-to-sms-food-alerts-to-poor-forgets-poor-lack/</guid><description><![CDATA[Well kinda yes, but poor peoplo do have mobile phones too. 85% of mobile phones  subscribers comes from emerging markets and if you think that Nokia's 1100 has sold over 200 million phones(dunno how many are sold to this day). 1100 costs 24$ in India.<br>Thought i agree would think there's better solution.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Pdexter]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 19th 2008 10:41AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Indian government to SMS food alerts to poor, forgets poor lack cellphones]]></title><link>http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/19/indian-government-to-sms-food-alerts-to-poor-forgets-poor-lack/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/19/indian-government-to-sms-food-alerts-to-poor-forgets-poor-lack/</guid><description><![CDATA[I agree with the comment made by Pdexter: poor people tend to have cellphones too. Moreover, they tend to value possession of a cellphone even more than the more well to do, since it's a symbol of status, self-worth, and modernity. I've been in Nigeria and Indonesia last year, and was surprised to find so many people in the poorer as well as rural areas with a handphone. One more consideration that may counter our (western) view of the handphone as very a personal technology: even though many people in poorer countries/areas do not individually possess a handphone, people in rural areas tend to share one cellphone with a whole family, or even a whole village. A message spreads fast in these communities. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[michiel]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 19th 2008 12:21PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Indian government to SMS food alerts to poor, forgets poor lack cellphones]]></title><link>http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/19/indian-government-to-sms-food-alerts-to-poor-forgets-poor-lack/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/19/indian-government-to-sms-food-alerts-to-poor-forgets-poor-lack/</guid><description><![CDATA[Right on guys, almost everyone I know has a mobile phone, and they are nowhere near wealthy.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Pismodude2010]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 19th 2008 1:12PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Indian government to SMS food alerts to poor, forgets poor lack cellphones]]></title><link>http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/19/indian-government-to-sms-food-alerts-to-poor-forgets-poor-lack/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/19/indian-government-to-sms-food-alerts-to-poor-forgets-poor-lack/</guid><description><![CDATA[Ever been to India? Everyone has a phone there, its nuts...even the poor]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Adam]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 19th 2008 5:21PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Indian government to SMS food alerts to poor, forgets poor lack cellphones]]></title><link>http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/19/indian-government-to-sms-food-alerts-to-poor-forgets-poor-lack/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/19/indian-government-to-sms-food-alerts-to-poor-forgets-poor-lack/</guid><description><![CDATA[Indeed. It's no coincident that big 4 mobile phone manufacturers are pushing hard in India. Cant member how many new phones there where bought in a day, but it for sure was crazy.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Pdexter]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 19th 2008 6:17PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Indian government to SMS food alerts to poor, forgets poor lack cellphones]]></title><link>http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/19/indian-government-to-sms-food-alerts-to-poor-forgets-poor-lack/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/19/indian-government-to-sms-food-alerts-to-poor-forgets-poor-lack/</guid><description><![CDATA[Have you ever been to other parts of the world?<br><br>Mexico is about the same - people that can't afford good food, but they are no lack of phone.. heck, some of them have better phones than me<br><br>This is in the line between crazy and idiotic... that's why I am an anti-cellphone... Just think of what "the people at the top" will be able to do when absolutely everyone in this world (exept me) haves a cellphone :-S]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[DarkLightConnection]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 19th 2008 6:45PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Indian government to SMS food alerts to poor, forgets poor lack cellphones]]></title><link>http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/19/indian-government-to-sms-food-alerts-to-poor-forgets-poor-lack/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/19/indian-government-to-sms-food-alerts-to-poor-forgets-poor-lack/</guid><description><![CDATA[Right now somewhere in India an emerging business owner is saying "Kamali honey im telling you, we should open a liquor store over there. In America, even the homeless have shopping carts!"]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rjay]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 21st 2008 10:59AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Indian government to SMS food alerts to poor, forgets poor lack cellphones]]></title><link>http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/19/indian-government-to-sms-food-alerts-to-poor-forgets-poor-lack/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/19/indian-government-to-sms-food-alerts-to-poor-forgets-poor-lack/</guid><description><![CDATA[I remember reading (must have been here) about a rural area in some developing country where they don't have electricity, but they have cell phones, and the people have to travel some ridiculous number of miles every day just to get to a place where they can charge their phones.  Seems a little bit cart-before-the-horse if you ask me, but obviously it works for them.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[PSM]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 20th 2008 12:10AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Indian government to SMS food alerts to poor, forgets poor lack cellphones]]></title><link>http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/19/indian-government-to-sms-food-alerts-to-poor-forgets-poor-lack/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/19/indian-government-to-sms-food-alerts-to-poor-forgets-poor-lack/</guid><description><![CDATA[Actually in developing country, most of the poor do own a cell phone.  This is simply because it would cost too much to run a landline to the village, but cell phone signal can reach remote village easily.  Of course some villages need to build their own tower to catch the signal, there was an article in the WSJ about a year ago regarding a guy who build a tree tower and rent it to his neighbor to climb on to catch cell phone signal.  Cell phone in developing world / villages serve more than just an emergency mean of contact, it's the only way for family to keep in touch with love one who move to the city to find work.  They also have cell phone finance program in some countries.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[strdust]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 20th 2008 3:12AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Indian government to SMS food alerts to poor, forgets poor lack cellphones]]></title><link>http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/19/indian-government-to-sms-food-alerts-to-poor-forgets-poor-lack/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/19/indian-government-to-sms-food-alerts-to-poor-forgets-poor-lack/</guid><description><![CDATA[I was in India at the tail-end of last year. You will be surprised how wide the cell phone penetration is.  Beggars have cell phones.  They call each other when they spot prospects.  It's a bit ridiculous.  People pulling hand cars loaded with a ton of garbage will whip out a start chatting.  It is so affordable there because street vendors sell SIM cards dirt cheap.  While the coverage may not be great, it's not that bad either.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Cryptofusebox]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 21st 2008 11:24AM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>