M: As we know, mobile phones bring people great convenience and shorten the distance among friends and relatives.

M：我们都知道，手机不仅给人们带来了巨大的便利，还缩短了亲朋好友之间的距离。

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M: That's true. Some people pay too much attention to their mobile phones.

M：没错，有些人把太多注意力都放在手机上了。

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People in Kenya, for instance, already use a successful text-message-based service called M-PESA to transfer money electronically to other mobile users.

例如，肯尼亚人已经在使用一个以手机短信为基础的成熟的服务- M - PESA，借助该服务可以以电子方式将钱转账到另一部手机上。

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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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People can also transfer money to other mobile phone users, even those without an M-Pesa account.

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In 2007, Safaricom launched M-Pesa (M for mobile and Pesa- a Swahili word for money) which lets users deposit, transfer and withdraw funds via text message.

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All payments for completed tasks are received by mobile phones, using M-PESA, a popular mobile banking service.

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