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dc.contributor.authorVaidyanathan, R
dc.date.accessioned2020-07-13T14:43:15Z-
dc.date.available2020-07-13T14:43:15Z-
dc.date.issued2014-01-10
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.iimb.ac.in/handle/2074/13261-
dc.descriptionSwarajya
dc.descriptionCentre Right India, 10-01-2014
dc.description.abstractThe impact of telecommunications on the self-employed and more particularly among the poorer groups has not been fully understood or appreciated. Mobile phones have created a sort of tsunami among lower level entrepreneurial groups like plumbers, carpenters, masons, small time construction contractors, painters, cooks, etc. In the long run, telecommunications will be a major competitor to the financial institutions since already more than 60% of the cost of operations of many global banks is software and telecom cost. It was just a board hanging on the branch of a tree in a rural part of Bangalore. It was a computer printed sheet of paper, pasted on a cardboard and said, “Manju the Plumber — Contact….” followed by a ten-digit mobile number. Professors are supposed to be curious and I decided to reach him. I learnt that his income had trebled in the last few months after the acquisition of the mobile phone [thanks to a loan from a friend at 6% per month]. Manju has been getting calls from many and he was planning to graduate from his cycle to a moped. People who earlier visited his home in the mornings to catch him were now able to reach him at all times. He no longer worried about losing a customer and did not have to rush back home during lunch time to find out if anyone had come to his one room tenement to ask for him. Read more at: https://swarajyamag.com/reviews/leveraging-on-the-mobile-phone-revolution
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherSwarajya
dc.subjectTelecommunications
dc.subjectMobile communication
dc.subjectFinancial institutions
dc.subjectMobile phones
dc.titleLeveraging on the mobile phone revolution
dc.typeMagazine and Newspaper Article
dc.identifier.urlhttps://swarajyamag.com/reviews/leveraging-on-the-mobile-phone-revolution
dc.journal.nameSwarajya
dc.journal.nameCentre Right India
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