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In much of the world, mobile broadband connections have grown by orders of magnitude in recent years. Still, far more people have cellular subscriptions, often on simpler feature phones. Thus text messaging, including the delivery of news and banking services, is the way most people use mobile devices for services other than voice calls.

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