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Crossing Continents - Afghanistan's Mobile Phones

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Lyse Doucet reports on the influence of the mobile phone in Afghanistan. Under the Taleban, Western influences were banned. But the population has now enthusiastically embraced modern technology, especially the ubiquitous mobile. Used for everything from dating to business and even war, the device is dramatically changing popular culture in the land.