Simple low cost access to mobile phones has huge economic and social impacts.

Out of the 6.6bn people in the world, there are 4bn who are currently 'unconnected" and do not have a mobile phone. The majority of these people survive on less than a dollar a day.

The Mobile Computing Group is committed to delivering technology and innovation that can enable basic phone services for these people at the 'Base of the Pyramid'.

We do this by delivering solutions to mobile operators that allow them to launch new products and business models specifically for this segment at a lower cost base to the mobile operator than could be reached before.

To the end user, by working with the network providers, we are creating the conditions that allow them the opportunity to use a mobile phone.

We are making access affordable.

We are connecting the unconnected.

We are enabling people to have a phone number and participate in the economic system.

We are helping people access jobs, raise incomes, access displaced family members and, increasingly, we are acting as an enabler to send and receive remittances over the mobile phone network.

The developed world model of phone ownership and usage is not applicable in this market. Low income subscribers use phones in far different ways than you could imagine.

This market cannot be satisfied by diluted down, low cost versions of traditional technology, it must be addressed by the most advanced technologies creatively combined with the existing infrastructure.

This is where we come in, MCG provides the technology, the business model innovation and market knowledge to make this happen.