Slow business
Flooding in Pakistan's Manoor valley has cut off villages from the outside world, leaving their residents struggling with communications. Some of the villagers threw a letter, packed in a weighted plastic bag, to reporters.
This is the only way they can communicate with the other part of the village these days. Mobile networks do not operate here.
Farhat Javed, BBC Urdu
Yet:
Many shops and hotels have been destroyed here. Soheil and his brother have lost their mobile phone repair shop to the flood.
Farhat Javed, BBC Urdu
Running a mobile phone repair shop, in an area where mobile networks don't operate, doesn't seem like a great business model to me. (confused)