Hello? Pyongyang? Can You Hear Me Now? – New York Times (blog)

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HONG KONG — Regular visitors to North Korea have reported in recent months that they’ve been noticing more and more cellphones being used in the capital, Pyongyang. At a soccer match, one visiting American professor said, he watched three teenage boys huddled excitedly over a phone.They were sending text messages.Orascom, the Egyptian mobile-phone operator with an exclusive contract in Ye Olde Hermit Kingdom, said last week that it now has more than 1 million subscribers there. The North’s population is estimated to be 24.5 million.So a slow-motion digital revolution seems to be taking place, if not an actual revolution.There are certainly more than 1 million actual users of cellphones in the country, because North Koreans living along the Chinese border routinely…(Google News)
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