Cellphone Tales From Around the World

Cyriac Roeding, a mobile technology expert and enthusiast -- took a 'round-the-world odyssey to see how the rest of the world uses cellphones.

He saw parking meters that talk to phones in New Zealand, teenage text-messaging monks in a Himalayan monastery and cellphone charging stations along the Ganges River in India, right next to a raging funeral pyre.

... Roeding's take on his circumnavigation: "I have known how important mobile is for some time now, but I've got to tell you, I was personally surprised and sometimes shocked at how far the use of mobile goes," he said. "It actually surprised me that mobile is reaching to the very edges of the world."

Full story in The Washington Post.

emily | 9:14 AM | Mobile phone projects - Third World |
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