My Way News - World's poor drive growth in global cell phone use
AP reports: "Six in 10 people around the world now have cell phone subscriptions, signaling that mobile phones are the communications technology of choice, particularly in poor countries, according to a U.N. report published Monday."

Comment: An interesting thing happened in the development pattern of many poor countries. Because building out the telcom infrastructure is so expensive, they skipped the landline phase and went right to the cell phone phase, allowing for much more connectivity and much more reliance on mobile-commerce applications, bringing millions into the global village much faster than otherwise would have been the case.