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Smuggled cell phones make Sri Lanka upwardly mobile
With taxes slashed and handsets smuggled in, Sri Lanka is becoming a mobile phone paradise where even the island's prisons are awash with cell phones, reports The Sydney Morning Herald. With the price of handsets falling by about 35 percent this year, owning a mobile has never been so affordable in Sri Lanka, where vegetable vendors, taxi drivers and pavement hawkers all carry a cell phone. "Every month 75,000 to 100,000 subscribers are added in to the mobile networks," said a manager at Sri Lanka's first cellular operator, Celltel, which competes with three other networks". Sri Lanka is probably the cheapest place to buy mobile phones in the whole of Asia". |
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