#19Listening: Fill in the BlanksAcademic,CoreMedium
Cell Phone Usage
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Another team of [blank] researchers looked at how cell phones were used in Uganda, in Africa. They found that people who didn't have their own phones could pay to use the phones of local [blank] . Because these customers paid in [blank] for their calls, they were [blank] to know how much time they'd spent on the call so far. So the phone company designed phones for use globally with this added [blank] .
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Another team of ethnographic researchers looked at how cell phones were used in Uganda, in Africa. They found that people who didn't have their own phones could pay to use the phones of local entrepreneurs . Because these customers paid in advance for their calls, they were eager to know how much time they'd spent on the call so far. So the phone company designed phones for use globally with this added feature .
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