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To solve this coverage gap, we propose VillageCell, a low-cost alternative to high-end cell phone networks.
This study fills the gap by studying information use by poor female mobile phone users in rural India.
This paper suggests a prepaid energy meter behaving like a prepaid mobile phone.
Implementation of prepaid service may generate large network traffic that significantly affects the performance of a mobile network.
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Sok-Ian Sou, Quincy Wu, Yi-Bing Lin, Che-Hua Yeh 
27 Jun 2005
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In this paper, we propose a prepaid mechanism that can simultaneously process messaging and VoIP calls.
I conclude that rapid mobile phone diffusion creates an opportunity to improve people’s access to healthcare in rural India, but it also creates new forms of marginalisation among poor rural households.
Our study indicates that PCR can significantly improve the performance of the prepaid mechanism.
Our study suggests that a prepaid service provider should encourage customers to buy large prepaid credits by giving them discounts.
We also observe that in order to reduce the checking cost of the service node, the prepaid service provider should encourage the customer to make long calls by giving them discounts.
The paper shows that embracing OTTs, and providing prepaid products that resemble flat-rate pricing (top-ups with limited validity), is the most successful strategy for mobile operators to retain revenues.