The Great Indian Phone Book: How the Cheap Cell Phone Changes Business, Politics, and Daily Life

by Assa Doron and Robin Jeffrey

Book Overview

In 2001, India had 4 million cell phone subscribers. Ten years later, that number had exploded to more than 750 million. Over just a decade, the mobile phone was transformed from a rare and unwieldy instrument to a palm-sized, affordable staple, taken for granted by poor fishermen in Kerala and affluent entrepreneurs in Mumbai alike. The Great Indian Phone Book investigates the social revolution ignited by what may be the most significant...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674072685
• ISBN13: 9780674072688
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 8.8"