1. Forgot your cell phone at home? Or is your battery running low? The
solution to your problem may be a walking cell phone.
2. People dressed in fluorescent yellow or green
vests with slogans like “Calling is easy” are walking cell phones. You can find
them walking in the streets.
3. People carry cellular phones attached to their
waists by chains about one meter long. When a client comes up, they dial the
number, and the client can talk for as long as he or she pleases.
4. It costs about fourteen US cents a minute, calls
are often cheaper than with ordinary cell phones.
5. The walking phones also offer jobs in one of the
poorest countries in the Western hemisphere, where unemployment is twelve
percent and rising.