Coin operated mobile phones may help improve connectivity

Taxi and autorickshaw drivers and bus conductors could in future become mobile public call offices, according to a city inventor and technology expert, D. Ravi Shankar, reports The Hindu.

"Coin operated mobile telephones could bring connectivity to more people, including long-distance bus or train passengers without a mobile phone of their own.

Structurally, these phones would be small and user-friendly, similar to those at PCOs, but compact enough to be carried on three-wheelers.

The mobile unit would connect with mobile "transceivers" or telephone exchanges and facilitate connectivity on insertion of a coin(s) for a pre-set period.

See also related article entitled "Rickshaws connect India's poor".

emily | 5:22 PM | Mobile phone projects - Third World |
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