New York Times, June 14, 2009
By Matt Richtel

Wireless carriers are receiving government subsidies to provide disabled and poor people with a cell phone and minutes of talk time each month, placing a societal stamp on the central role played by the mobile device. And the policies are benefiting mobile phone carriers: most Americans already own a cell phone, so the poor represent a last untapped market.

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