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START Stuck in Bhiwadi and need to make a call? You’ll have to scout out a camel. Few remote regions in India are wired for phones, and it’s not for a lack of customers: The country’s rural communities are home to 500 to 3,000 people each. As in other developing nations, the cost of laying […]

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Stuck in Bhiwadi and need to make a call? You'll have to scout out a camel. Few remote regions in India are wired for phones, and it's not for a lack of customers: The country's rural communities are home to 500 to 3,000 people each. As in other developing nations, the cost of laying a landline network is prohibitively high, and cell phones don't work outside urban areas. Fortunately, local outfit Shyam Telelink is setting up more than 200 public mobile phones throughout the state of Rajasthan. In villages, these tellies are mounted on camels, and in cities, they're tethered to bikes. They work like long-range cordless phones, good for meandering roughly 3 square kilometers. Not bad for 2 cents a call.

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