cell phones
Saudi and Amish Business Selling Camel’s Milk
Some Amish farmers have been raising camels and selling their milk to a Saudi entrepreneur who then sells it to people who are allergic to cow’s milk. CNN published an article last week about the businessman, a Muslim raised in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and his Amish and Mennonite suppliers. Walid Abdul-Wahab had drunk camel’s milk […]
Cell Phone Service for Zapotec Communities
Commercial firms in Mexico had refused requests from Zapotec villages in the mountains of Oaxaca to provide cell phone service, so one of them decided to do it themselves. An article in New York magazine on November 1 describes the struggles of a Zapotec community in the northern part of the Mexican state to found […]
Birhor Contraceptives and Cell Phones
Birhor women are experts in the use of native plants for contraceptive purposes, according to a news story last week in The Pioneer, an English language daily paper from India. In one of three stories about the Birhor carried by the paper during the course of the week, Ashis Sinha wrote that the Birhor avidly continue […]
Montana Hutterites May Lose Cell Phone Services
Many Montana Hutterites, and numerous other rural residents across that vast state, may lose their cell phone connections after February 18th when cellular carriers will be permitted to shut down analog services. The problem will occur because the Federal Communications Commission decided in 2002 to allow cellular carriers to close the analog-based services next month. […]
Hutterites Cope with Cell Phones
Although cell phones are being used increasingly in many Hutterite colonies, they still may be against the rules. A front page story in the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday, September 4, discusses the uses, and the potential disruptions, of cell phones in one central Montana colony. While some of the colonies are quite restrictive and […]
Amish Use of Cell Phones Increases
The Lancaster New Era reported last Friday the results of a series of interviews with Amish people around Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, about their use of cell phones. While some people were opposed to them, many now admit to owning and using them regularly. The Amish bishops strongly disapprove. But they do not know who actually […]
