According to Anatel - the Brazilian Telecommunications Agency, 80 million brazilians have cellular telephones. Now, that we have conquered the A, B and C classes it is time to the cellular telephony to run over the "extreme low income" classes - the parcel of the population that cannot pay for a device and nor has minimum conditions to keep the line.
The first step for a bigger access universalization to the telephony in Brazil is the production in large scale of low cost devices. Philips, through its semiconductors division, presented, at Futurecom, a project of low cost mobiles through the reduction of components. The idea is to create a software and hardware platform capable to handle all the necessary elements for the device with prices of US$ 20 or less.
Monday, November 07, 2005
