Cheap Mobile Phones Aren't the Whole Story in Emerging Markets

In depth interviews with low-income first-time mobile phone owners in Manila, Philippines show that basic no-frills phones will meet the needs of some emerging market consumers, but others want more features - and will pay for them.

Strategy Analytics: Cheap Mobile Phones Aren't the Whole Story in Emerging Markets

BOSTON----In depth interviews with low-income first-time mobile phone owners in Manila show that basic no-frills phones will meet the needs of some emerging market consumers, but others want more features – and will pay for them. “Voices of the Next Billion: Mobile Adoption at the Bottom of the Pyramid,” a new report from the Strategy Analytics Emerging Markets Communications Strategies service ...

New rule to tighten controls on Chinese mobile phone-users

CHINESE MOBILE phone-users have to register their personal details to buy a SIM card under a new government rule, which Beijing says will crack down on spam and porn but which some see as an invasion of privacy.

Critics put on mute as China tightens mobile phone rules

Chinese mobile telephone users must register their personal details to buy phone numbers under a rule that comes into force from Wednesday, in what the government calls an attack on spam but some see as a blow to privacy.

China: ID required to buy mobile numbers

Officials have begun demanding identification from anyone buying a new mobile phone number in what the government claims is an attempt to stamp out junk messages. Critics say the measure, enacted yesterday, gives the Communist regime a new tool for monitoring its citizens.