Airtime airlines – literally paying as you go

From Wired comes news of this innovative business model and pricing strategy just announced by a new South African airline, here's a longish snippet describing how it will all work, if they manage to get things off the ground, so to speak: Taking a cue from the cellphone industry, an upstart South African airline is […]

Purchasing consumer durables : the story of one man’s mobile

This multilingual phone belongs to a young man working with an environmental NGO. It is his 5th phone in 5 years but two were simply week long flings. He was the first person in his village of 3000 people to buy a mobile phone 5 years ago – the Nokia 1100 for a grand sum […]