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Mobile phones connect people through obligations and expectations as well as through networks. Drawing on research in Papua New Guinea, Fiji and Vanuatu, this collection explores the values attached to sharing handsets, buying credit, maintaining relationships and becoming a telecommunications customer.
Studies follow village phone sharing, friendships, religious interpretations of wireless communication, advertising and the giving and spending of prepaid credit. They connect everyday decisions with the commercial systems that make communication possible. Two concluding discussions bring the case studies together, considering how mobile technologies change experiences of place, time and personhood. Photographs, maps and figures accompany the essays.