Bridging the digital divide with mobile telephony

Robert Conway is the CEO of the GSM Association, which comprises over 800 GSM mobile phone operators, manufacturers and suppliers from across the world.In countries such as India, efforts have led to reduced phone costs and basic services are offered at lower revenuesHe participated in the Principal Voices debate in 2005 and talked about how technology impacted development across the world and the role mobile phone technology played.Three years on, CNN caught up with Robert Conway and asked whether there’s been any shrinking of the digital divide.To read this CNN interview in full, see edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/09/09/robert.conway/.

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