Oct 7, 2010, BBC News – Mobile phones ‘increase incomes of poor women’
More than half of all female business owners in poor countries reported earning more money because of their mobile phone, according to research by the international mobile phone body, the GSMA.
Samanthi, who runs a small business selling charcoal stoves in Sri Lanka, says she would be unable to do business if it was not for her mobile phone. (Video by GSMA mWomen)
Link to video – http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11492429
