Needy foreign workers get 3G phones
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A Singapore migrant welfare group has started distributing 3G-enabled mobile phones to cash-strapped foreign workers days before the city-state shuts down its 2G network.
Telecom operators in the highly wired island will end second-generation services on April 1, forcing thousands still relying on it to upgrade their handsets or become a casualty of technology’s relentless advance.
Migrants group Transient Workers Count Too (TWC2) said the first batch of handsets was given to 50 jobless foreign workers late Tuesday.
They are jobless due to wage disputes or workplace injury.
Many rely on cheap 2G handsets to keep in touch with loved ones back home while awaiting a resolution to their problems.
TWC2 said it would hand out 120 more handsets next week, while some of the remaining 80 phones which have been collected would be given to other migrant welfare groups for distribution.
The group had urged the public to donate used 3G phones or money to buy them.
Singapore, with one of the world’s highest mobile penetration rates, is re-allocating scarce radio frequency spectrum to meet surging consumer demand for high-speed data.
“Phones are a lot more important to these workers than to all of us who have access to computers. It’s their only link to their family,” TWC2 treasurer Alex Au said.
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