"In rural parts of Kenya, jobseekers travel long distances and pay expensive fees to access the Internet at cyber cafes. Kenyan company OneWorld International is offering a new text messaging service that advertise jobs and allows candidates to apply from their wireless phones. Wireless users with a Safaricom connection can receive text messages alerting them of job openings for 4 U.S. cents. (Source: Reuters)"
More and more examples of interesting wireless phone use has been cropping up in places where basic infrastructure of information spread and management is lacking. Wireless phones have been able to provide infrastructure that is more agile than it's wireline counterparts (and cheaper). What is even more interesting here, is the little susbtitution effect of SMS for ... Internet use! as long as the Internet is tied to wires, it is still less agile than SMS. Even wireless versions of the Internet have to be accessed using expensive, relatively fragile hardware. Phones win there too.
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