Rob Katz

Chinese Stores Sell Phone Time

Chinese Phone ShopWe’ve talked a lot on NextBillion about the selling and re-selling of mobile phone minutes, whether its the phone ladies of Grameen Telecom or the sari-sari street merchants of Smart Communications. Now Kevin Kelly (of Wired Magazine and Whole Earth Catalog fame) points us to a cool phenomenon in China – small stores letting customers use their land-lines for a fee. Check out the picture, nabbed from Flickr via Kevin’s blog.

(Via Smart Mobs)

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