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Mobile money
Also: M-Pesa, phone money
Mobile money lets people send, receive, store, and spend money through a phone service.
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Mobile money lets people send, receive, store, and spend money through a phone service. In everyday buying decisions, the useful question is not just what the spec says, but what it changes for comfort, cost, speed, safety, or battery life.
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