001479209 000__ 06435nam\a22010335i\4500 001479209 001__ 1479209 001479209 003__ DE-B1597 001479209 005__ 20231026035016.0 001479209 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001479209 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001479209 008__ 230103t20132013mau\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001479209 019__ $$a(OCoLC)1013940011 001479209 019__ $$a(OCoLC)1037979663 001479209 019__ $$a(OCoLC)1041979003 001479209 019__ $$a(OCoLC)1046616063 001479209 019__ $$a(OCoLC)1047004351 001479209 019__ $$a(OCoLC)1049661547 001479209 019__ $$a(OCoLC)1054879767 001479209 020__ $$a9780674074248 001479209 0247_ $$a10.4159/harvard.9780674074248$$2doi 001479209 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)209791 001479209 035__ $$a(OCoLC)899756471 001479209 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001479209 0410_ $$aeng 001479209 044__ $$amau$$cUS-MA 001479209 050_4 $$aHE9715 001479209 072_7 $$aSOC026000$$2bisacsh 001479209 08204 $$a384.5$$b23 001479209 1001_ $$aDoron, Assa, $$eauthor.$$4aut$$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 001479209 24514 $$aThe Great Indian Phone Book :$$bHow the Cheap Cell Phone Changes Business, Politics, and Daily Life /$$cAssa Doron. 001479209 264_1 $$aCambridge, MA : $$bHarvard University Press, $$c[2013] 001479209 264_4 $$c©2013 001479209 300__ $$a1 online resource (351 p.) :$$b16 halftones 001479209 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001479209 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001479209 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001479209 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001479209 50500 $$tFrontmatter -- $$tCONTENTS -- $$tGLOSSARY -- $$tABBREVIATIONS -- $$tLIST OF MAPS, ILLUSTRATIONS, FIGURES AND TABLES -- $$tACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- $$tRADIO FREQUENCY AND MOBILE PHONES -- $$tINTRODUCTION -- $$t1 CONTROLLING COMMUNICATION -- $$t2 CELLING INDIA -- $$t3 MISSIONARIES OF THE MOBILE -- $$t4 MECHANICS OF THE MOBILE -- $$t5 FOR BUSINESS -- $$t6 FOR POLITICS -- $$t7 FOR WOMEN AND HOUSEHOLDS -- $$t8 FOR 'WRONGDOING' -- $$tCONCLUSION -- $$tNOTES -- $$tBIBLIOGRAPHY -- $$tINDEX -- $$tPREFACE 001479209 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001479209 520__ $$aIn 2001, India had 4 million cell phone subscribers. Ten years later, that number had exploded to more than 750 million. Over just a decade, the mobile phone was transformed from a rare and unwieldy instrument to a palm-sized, affordable staple, taken for granted by poor fishermen in Kerala and affluent entrepreneurs in Mumbai alike. The Great Indian Phone Book investigates the social revolution ignited by what may be the most significant communications device in history, one which has disrupted more people and relationships than the printing press, wristwatch, automobile, or railways, though it has qualities of all four. In this fast-paced study, Assa Doron and Robin Jeffrey explore the whole ecosystem of the cheap mobile phone. Blending journalistic immediacy with years of field-research experience in India, they portray the capitalists and bureaucrats who control the cellular infrastructure and wrestle over bandwidth rights, the marketers and technicians who bring mobile phones to the masses, and the often poor, village-bound users who adapt these addictive and sometimes troublesome devices to their daily lives. Examining the challenges cell phones pose to a hierarchy-bound country, the authors argue that in India, where caste and gender restrictions have defined power for generations, the disruptive potential of mobile phones is even greater than elsewhere. 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