Street repair services for mobile phones are a big industry in India, with technicians getting a full fledged diploma from a “Mobile Repairing Institute.”Jan Chipchase is leading Nokia’s team which is trying to lower the cost of phones for emerging markets, an effort that also has an eco-friendly character.
The group of 15 has scanned bazaars and street shops across such countries as Ghana, Brazil, Iran, India, Egypt, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, China, and Mongolia to learn how end-users relate to their mobile phones. Their main finding – there’s no limit to how mobile phones can be modified and how their life spans can be extended!
In addition, they’ve also found out that breathing a new life into phones usually doesn’t take a complex set of tools — in most cases, a screwdriver and a toothbrush sprayed with alcohol do the work just fine…
[Via: news.com]
big business in whitechapel market as well.
Comment by thexcode — April 23, 2008 @ 1:22 PM
street repirs service i think is good business which people should look at very well nd it is the best way to capture customers wherever they are and customers giving them the easy acess to repirs of their phones. i am a ghanaian who want to have interest in the business currently i am into graphic designing and recording music on a cd. i am write to extablish that partners branch in ghana becouse i could see will help most of the needys i train in the graphic industry.
Comment by dannyboy — November 8, 2008 @ 3:10 AM