Banking by phone for the poor

August 6th, 2008 By ERIKA KINETZ , AP Business Writer

(AP) -- It can scale mountains in a single bound and wend its way down the most wretched roads. It is the mighty cell phone signal - and the latest hope for bringing financial services to the world's masses who don't have access to banks.

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