Afghan cell phone use booming
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About 150,000 people subscribe to cell phone service each month in Afghanistan and there's "no end in sight" to the growth, the country's communications minister said Tuesday.
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VIENNA -- Afghanistan produced dramatically more opium in 2006, increasing its yield by nearly 50 percent from a year earlier and pushing global opium production to a new record high, a UN report said today .
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Afghanistan produced record levels of opium in 2007 for the second straight year, led by a staggering 45 percent increase in the Taliban stronghold of Helmand Province, according to a UN survey to be released tomorrow.
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On Saturday, the Afghan people took another step toward lasting peace and prosperity while dealing a blow to terrorism. Afghan women and men turned out in massive numbers to participate in
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Western pop videos, India's Bollywood movies and even Charlton Heston's "The Ten Commandments" have Afghanistan's fledgling cable TV stations in hot water.
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Cellphone users in China sent 429 billion text messages in 2006, while India added more mobile subscribers in the year than Britain had in total, as the two countries joined Brazil and Russia in driving growth in the sector.
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Global mobile phone use will top 3.25  billion -- equivalent to around half the world&#39;s population --  in 2007 as cell phone demand booms in China, India and Africa,  a survey said on Wednesday.
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The number of mobiles with GPRS and MMS technology has doubled since last year, figures show.
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A new video-teleconferencing system is allowing prisoners at a major U.S. military base in Afghanistan to speak with their relatives Â the first time some detainees have talked to anyone outside the secretive facility in years, the Red Cross said Monday.
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More than a third of mobile phone  owners in China, the world's largest mobile market, use their  handsets to listen to music, more than in Britain or the United  States, a study showed.
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China is leading the world in the number of subscribers to broadband through phone lines, says a report.
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Global mobile phone use will top 3.25  billion -- equivalent to around half the world's population --  in 2007 as cell phone demand booms in China, India and Africa,  a survey said on Wednesday.
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PRAGUE- The number of mobile phones in the Czech Republic grew by 520,000 to 10.24 million in Jan-Sept this year, with each citizen having one mobile phone number.
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The airwaves that carry billions of calls, text messages and e-mails have become one of the hottest corporate properties. Not only are they in demand  by a nation of 240 million mobile-phone users, they are also in short supply.
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More than 1,000 new customers are effectively signing up for mobile phones every minute around the world.
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Though illegal, cellphones are connecting more N. Koreans to the outside world.
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BRUSSELS -- Heroin production is booming in Afghanistan, undermining democracy and putting money in the coffers of terrorists, according to a UN report yesterday that called on US and NATO-led forces to get more involved in fighting traffickers.