Telephone is one of the most useful services for the purpose.
In Pakistan, several hundred thousand wireless phones are being installed in the rural areas by private companies, in collaboration with the state telecom monopoly. Besides many social advantages, the phones will help the farmers in getting market information, ordering supplies, making deals. But they will be confined to the nearest towns because long distance calls will not be affordable. Now, if the Internet is made easily affordable, in accordance with the UNDP proposal, the same farmers through the same phones will get access to useful information from around the world. Take the example of cotton, one of the main crops of Pakistan.