Our era of technology and digital connectivity has reached a new milestone. The number of people with an active data connection and mobile services has surpassed the total world population. This milestone makes it an important affair. This is because mobile phones empower us. Well, if you still don’t get it, then please do check the high school protestors who used the light in their mobile phones as a symbol of their unity and protests.
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This milestone not just emphasizes how mobile phones have changed us our lifestyle by giving us a chance to be connected to our loved ones, but also the other part of the story. It makes us focus on the point that most of the population are still deprived from the pleasure of possessing a cell-phone, gateway to health, economic growth and political power. Thus, this drives home a fact that the numbers tracked by World Population Mobile Connections,a real time digital tickers don’t tell us the whole story.
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Kevin Kimberlin clearly celebrates this historic achievement but also drive home this point that it’ll take the help of entrepreneurs like Millicom Inc. that started this era of mobile phones to finish the job. Millicom Inc., has also joined Facebook and Internet org as an initiative to bring free access to people who are not yet connected.
Leonard Gubar, the attorney and Director of Millicom, was quoted saying as below when questioned about moblile phones and what it means to him. He says that it is miraculous. You can do everything with a mobile phone.
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