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When I worked in the phone industry in India (2007) there were definitely communities that had near-complete phone adoption and near-zero electricity in the hom
by qq66 12y ago
When I worked in the phone industry in India (2007) there were definitely communities that had near-complete phone adoption and near-zero electricity in the home. You don't need electricity to the home to charge a phone.
- arc_of_descent 12y agoI assume you're talking about landline phones.
- qq66 12y agoNo, mobile phones. People charged them off diesel generators, hand generators, etc. There were in fact small-scale entrepreneurs who bicycled around to everyone's house, gathered up the phones, and returned them charged for a small fee. This works pretty well for Nokia 1100 style phones which had about a week or so of battery life which many people extend to a month by turning them off judiciously.