时间:2019-02-20 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语2009年(十月)


英语课

By Fid Thompson
Dakar
08 October 2009


 


 
Mobile banking 1 has already taken off in Southern and Eastern Africa. Sierra Leone is now one of the few West African countries with a service providing mobile phone transactions.


Across West Africa, the yellow and black signs of the money transfer company Western Union are ubiquitous. Up until now, this was the easiest way to send money for those without a bank account.


Now Sierra Leoneans have the chance to send money using just their mobile phone. With the mobile transfer service, Splash Mobile Money, there is no need for a bank account and registration 2 is free.


Ben Farren is Director of Splash Mobile Money Limited. He explains how the system works.


"Splash is a way of storing and sending money on your mobile phone," Farren said. "We sell mobile money or Splash Cash which you can buy and credit to your phone number. You can then send that Splash Cash to other people using simple instructions which you send to Splash via text message. The recipient 3 can turn the Splash Cash they receive back into cash through a network of agents that we are creating."


Currently recipients 4 can cash in at one of 30 Splash agents in the country. Most agents are centered in the capital, Freetown. But Splash also reaches the major regional towns of Bo and Makeni, with plans to expand to more remote areas in the coming months.


The cost of transferring money by phone depends on the amount being transferred. You can move as little as $1.50 for 16 cents or up to $300 for about $4.


Splash Mobile Money works in partnership 5 with the Sierra Leonean bank Guaranty Trust Bank and the mobile phone networks, Africell and Zain.


After a decade-long civil war that ended in 2002, Sierra Leone's traditional communications infrastructure 6 has suffered from neglect. But the mobile phone sector 7 is growing fast, with five networks operating now and three more expected to launch soon. 


According to the World Bank, only about 9 percent of the adult population in Sierra Leone has a bank account. There are between 1.5 and 2 million mobile phone users in the country.


Farren says mobile cash could revolutionize the way money is used in Sierra Leone, removing barriers for people who cannot access bank accounts because of distance or cost.


"At a basic level it is difficult and expensive to send money today," Farren said. "And we make it cheap, easy, fast and safe for the first time."


In a country where, on average, people live on about two dollars a day and road infrastructure is poor, the opportunity to transfer small amounts of money cheaply and quickly by phone could have a significant impact on people's lives.


After only three weeks, 1,000 people have already signed up for Splash mobile money and according to Farrel the numbers are growing rapidly.



n.银行业,银行学,金融业
  • John is launching his son on a career in banking.约翰打算让儿子在银行界谋一个新职位。
  • He possesses an extensive knowledge of banking.他具有广博的银行业务知识。
n.登记,注册,挂号
  • Marriage without registration is not recognized by law.法律不承认未登记的婚姻。
  • What's your registration number?你挂的是几号?
a.接受的,感受性强的 n.接受者,感受者,容器
  • Please check that you have a valid email certificate for each recipient. 请检查是否对每个接收者都有有效的电子邮件证书。
  • Colombia is the biggest U . S aid recipient in Latin America. 哥伦比亚是美国在拉丁美洲最大的援助对象。
adj.接受的;受领的;容纳的;愿意接受的n.收件人;接受者;受领者;接受器
  • The recipients of the prizes had their names printed in the paper. 获奖者的姓名登在报上。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The recipients of prizes had their names printed in the paper. 获奖者名单登在报上。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
n.合作关系,伙伴关系
  • The company has gone into partnership with Swiss Bank Corporation.这家公司已经和瑞士银行公司建立合作关系。
  • Martin has taken him into general partnership in his company.马丁已让他成为公司的普通合伙人。
n.下部构造,下部组织,基础结构,基础设施
  • We should step up the development of infrastructure for research.加强科学基础设施建设。
  • We should strengthen cultural infrastructure and boost various types of popular culture.加强文化基础设施建设,发展各类群众文化。
n.部门,部分;防御地段,防区;扇形
  • The export sector will aid the economic recovery. 出口产业将促进经济复苏。
  • The enemy have attacked the British sector.敌人已进攻英国防区。
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.ttf files
abreauvoir
affix a seal
arborine
autopilot engage and trim indicator
bad copy
battery terminal
block macromolecule
body hoop
bottom gradient electrode system
bulb nose
c-legs
calcaneocuboid articulation
carrier solvent
chinny reckon
Co-ferol
Cohengua, R.
control register instruction
core maximum heat flux (density)
Cortadren
cotton trousers
coupled valve
cursarary
differential earnings from land
diluent modifier
double out
drop-in commercial
ecological climatology
El Orégano
expense not allocated
fermented tea
fertility of soil
frustillatim
fuel refuse-derived
graviditas tuboabdominalis
heading (hdg)
heating systems
hierarchy model
His bark is worse than his bite.
hoglike
hold-over
I/O mode
Ilheus encephalitis
indian chocolates
invoicings
Johnson, Jack
Karvezide
keep one's eye on
khairulins
kick starter spring
krasorskii's method
Kronig's method
lane cake
leptospira tarassovi
lifeline pistol
literary youth
lulita
mean deviations
mediamax
microwave power module
nested sink
noninterchangeable
NSOC
Nupasal
oleostrut
on line service provider
order of reactor
patio doors
perecs
polyphase converter
pound the pavement
proceeding with
program clarity
proper energy
rate of strain tensor
reducing acid radical
regional unconformity
remote operated
rheostatic type automatic power factor regulator
Rosenmmuller's gland
Rzhevsky
sanitary napkin
sea damage for seller's account
self-balancing type
sepr.
servo
set a clock
simple proposition
slicklines
snip-snap
social density
sphero-cylindrical lenticular
St Anthony
staphyloma
telecommunication networks
territorial division of labor
Themistian
turn volume
water trumpet
Wedge Mountain
zizanin
Zyryanskoye