"Life is very different in Kenya. People live a poor life here on the grasslands. They can't afford TVs, cars or mobile phones. They make a living mainly by herding cows and sheep." Marco says.

“肯尼亚的生活很不一样。人们在草原上过着贫困的生活。他们买不起电视、汽车或手机。他们主要靠放牛和放羊为生。”马可说。

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In countries like Kenya and Uganda, farmers receive updated crop prices on their mobile phones.

在肯尼亚和乌干达等国，农民通过手机接收最新农产品价格信息。

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Mobile-phone companies are pioneering mobile money in Kenya and elsewhere.

移动电话公司正将自己的移动资金投入肯尼亚及其他地方。

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Two companies, Safaricom and Vodafone, launched the M-Pesa mobile money service in Kenya in two thousand seven.

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It has been set up by UAP Insurance of Kenya, Safaricom, Kenya's biggest mobile-network operator, and the Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture, part of a big Swiss agribusiness group.

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In the emerging world , the most famous mobile payments success is in Kenya, where M-Pesa , the P2P payments service of mobile phone supplier Safaricom, has effectively created an alternative banking and payments system.

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In 2008, it launched the China African News Service while in April last year it teamed up with telecommunications firm Safaricom to start a mobile newspaper in Kenya.

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