Pursuits
Internet by the Minute Lures Mobile Users in Emerging Markets
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Rusdi, an Indonesian office worker, has never had a home Internet connection. Since getting a Samsung Electronics Co. smartphone, he now gets online every day and pays 2 cents a minute to carrier PT Indosat.
“I need entertainment while waiting for my wife shopping,” said Rusdi, 26, who doesn’t have a family name. “Mobile Internet is the only answer.”