I am Francis Kachala Library Assitant with Chancellor College Library of the University of Malawi.

Dear all, While I appreciate that the first question centres on success stories in mobile telephony, I would appreciate if an overview of what is involved in the whole process, what applications and technologhies are involved were given considering that some of us are coming from underdeloped countries, like Malawi, where although mobile phones are in pocession of everyone, even the rural farmer, their use is restricted to oral communication. I am saying this after going through several contributions which gives the impressions that we are not all using the same wave lenth. Kind regards, Francis Kachala Chancellor College University of Malawi