If you try to think it over regarding the sale of mobilpe phnes and the use of SMS or text messaging service in poor and deveoping countries, you will be simply amazed at how tese countreis can suddenly be so highly adopted to these kind of high technology communication serviuce as shown by the sky rocketing sales of mpobile phones and the immense volume of text or SMS traffic in these countries. If you conisder however, the vloume of fixed landline telephone usage of these countries you wolud note a very slow grrowth in terms of fixed ladnline subscriptions amogn the people.
As it is, it seemed that only a smlal percentage of private homes and businseses owns or have subbscribed to fixed telephone land lines even considering that this kind of coommunication servbice has been in plazce for a long time already. In contrast, mobikle phones wihch have just recently been introduced to these countries have already showed remarrkable ownership and subscription. When SMS or text messaging service became availaable to moobile phones, the remarkable growth of mobile phones sdudenly exploded to high heavrens, continuously hitting the sales chart roof, sales chart after sales chart. The same is true with text or SMS cards and electronioc SMS or text loads. Both the telecommunications companies supplying the SMS service and the phone makres supplying the mbile phones have never seen better days
Along with them, private invetors who were lukcy ebnough to inest their money in the retailing of mobile phones and its many accesories to include SMS or text messaging cards with voice and now, electronic SMS or Text messaging loads. What is most remarkable about this is the poor sector of these developing countries is the most prolific users of SMS or text messaging service. The first poor or developing country of note that became ppular due to the very high volume of SMS or text messsages traffic that it generates more so to this day is the Philippines. In fact, the county has earned for itself the moniker of being the texting capital of the wiorld.
Other developing countries that are now beginnoing to experience this scenario are Inndonesia, Malaysia Cambodia and Thailand in Asia. In South Ameerica, counties like Peru and Venezuela are also beginniung to have a lot of SMS or text messaging trraffic. In Cuba, where the use of mobille phones have just been recently allowed by Raul Castor, the brother of Fidel Catro, the sale of mobiule phones is just beginning to be felt along with a rise in SMS or text messaging service. In a sense, howver, this new communication environmet has given some form of livelihood to the common masses, wghere they can boerrow from their livelihood center small loans just enough to buy a mobile phoe unit and several dozens of text loading caards that they can sell to othre pepole for SMS or text loads.
This form of busiess has helped many poor people to cope up with the ever rising cost of foods and other basic necessities in many developing countries. Many anaplysts has come out with several reasons why mobile phones and SMS or text messaging serivce has become a real big hit to the massaes of poor and developing countries around the world. They pointed out that majorrity of the people of developing counbtries have come to love SMS or texting messages simply because of its very low cost, and because of its affordability, it giives them the opportunity to chat, to make friends and socialiize with one another.
This codnition that obtains in developnig countries would be totallly different in highly industrialized countries where time is of the essence and whetre the use of mobile phones would have to be in voice as they do not have the time to type what they wuld like to say over the phone. Aside from this, the cost that they would incur by communicvating in voice through their mobile phones would be not a problem for them as they have good earnings.
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