BCtA said the plan became closer to reality Thursday, after Movirtu, a United Kingdom based technology firm, made a commitment to help 3 million people use the technology on a regular basis.

Movirtu said it will offer numbers or mobile identities, through commercial carriers in developing countries in Africa and South Asia to people who typically borrow phones from others. With the mobile identities they will be able to log into the carrier's network and use their own prepaid minutes and bits of data to make and receive individual calls and access critical information and services such as banking or agriculture support.

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