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This publication by C.K. Prahalad explains how those at the bottom of the pyramid are the world's most exciting, fastestgrowing new market. Collectively, the world's billions of poor people have immense entrepreneurial capabilities and buying power. You can learn how to serve them and help millions of the world's poorest people…

Mobile Number portability (MNP), a feature present in most developed telecom markets around the orld, is now making its way into the developing telecom markets of South Asia. Unlike the conditions that exist in the mature environments of the western world, however, market structures, pricing mechanisms and even customer phone…

There seems to be almost no dispute that mobile phones are the only platform that can help in bridging the quintessential digital divide. Wireless technology revolutionized voice telephony and helped in altering a typically monopoly market with its associated problems into a highly liberalized and competitive market with its attendant…

Providing mobile money through mobile phones is a value‐added service offered through telecommunication companies. Its issuance involves both telecommunication and bank regulations. But for complaints about this service, the first avenue for redress is often the telecommunication company, if not the telecommunication regulator. http://lirneasia.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/Mobile-2.0_Final_Hor_EA.pdf 

In order to respond to developing countries' need for practical, relevant guidance and assistance in an ever-changing environment, in late 2004, infoDev, in cooperation with the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), began the development of an ICT Regulation Toolkit, a hands-on, web-based update and expansion of infoDev’s successful Telecommunications Regulation Handbook…