Mobile media on low-cost handsets: The resiliency of text messaging among small enterprises in India (and beyond)

Mobile Technologies: From Telecommunications to Media

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 93-104

  Donner, Jonathan ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

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EID: 52649141126     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203884317     Document Type: Chapter

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