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Mobile phone use is skyrocketing in sub-Saharan Africa and other developing regions and biofuels are helping make rural areas active participants in the era of fast and mobile communications. Mobile telephony drives social change and can transform agriculture, small businesses, micro-trade and grassroots politics for the better. Biofuels allow the technology to become available to the rural poor. Indian mobile operator Idea Cellular, Ericsson and the GSM Association’s Development Fund today announced that four mobile base stations powered by locally produced biofuels have extended Idea’s commercial mobile network in rural India.