The third world's cellphone revolution is a curious beast: with landlines either decrepit colonial relics or completely nonexistent, plunking a cell tower down solves the telecoms problem cheaply and efficiently.
But the phones themselves are too expensive for the local market to buy first-hand. The solution is a rummage through the west's trashcan
MSNBC takes a look at ReCellular, a Michigan firm that's made a successful business of recycling the junk we don't want and giving it new life in faraway places. When they started business in 1991, there were 16 million cellphones worldwide; there are now more than 2 billion.
ReCellular V.P. Make Newman puts it bluntly: "The fact that you can combine a business — a profitable business — with a useful service and a charitable good is a win, win, win."
ReCellular [Via MSNBC]
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