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In Kerala, mobile phones are ringing on the high seas. Instead of creating the much feared digital divide between the rich and the poor, cellular phone companies in this southern state have carved out a new business class – “the mobile fishermen”. For the past 26 years as a fisherman, Vettath Shankaran used to rely on memory and luck for his daily catch that made his family’s both ends meet. No longer! Now Shankaran no longer simply navigate the waters to find his daily catch. Technology has stepped in, changing his fishing habits drastically.