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    Can Africa's mobile money revolution reduce poverty?

    AFP, Published on 28/09/2016

    » DAKAR - When farmer Isaac Tondo fell on lean times in Liberia's long rainy season, his brother in the capital sent 8,000 Liberian dollars (US$87) to his Lonestar mobile money account, ensuring his children's school fees would still be paid.

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    Cancel all technology

    Database, Published on 22/09/2010

    » Oh, come on, who wants that icky 3G mobile phone service anyhow, right?; it's so simple, even Cambodians and Laotians can do it, where's the challenge?; and anyway, your CAT Telecom and your ToT won't survive if they have to go out and get actual jobs, instead of renting out their concessions to the private sector; all in all, no 3G is the natural way of things, and everyone will be much better off using their time constructively instead of looking at that Internet thingamy on their phone, right? Right?

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    ToT opposes allocation act

    Database, Published on 26/05/2010

    » Your ToT said that the Frequency Allocation Act under scrutiny by the senate will cause the loss of 10 billion baht for state coffers if it actually passes; Monchai Noosong, senior executive ToT president for vice, said your ToT and your CAT will lose their duopoly status to something called the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC); that will mean that ToT and CAT can't give concessions to private firms, and that means that the whole business of concession fees will go in someone else's pocket or, worse still, no one's pocket at all; of course your ToT has nothing to lose here, it is only intensely and altruistically concerned with the harm to the national coffers.

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    Seven years of frustration

    Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 19/05/2010

    » Seven years. That is how long I have been writing for the Bangkok Post. I almost did not make it to this milestone, but somehow I managed. I could go on about how disillusioned I am with the Thai IT scene, the government, the Ministry of Truth and the Knights of Truffle and Cake, but why bother? When I started in 2003, we were on the cusp of digital inclusion; of bridging the digital divide and of a new era in 3G communications. Fast forward to 2010 we are still, erm, nowhere.

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