This paper examines the application and impacts of Mobile learning in providing sustainable distance learning in the case of developing countries having multiethnic social environment. The sustainability is conditioned by the structure of learners and well as the teaching community. This paper explains these issues among the distance learners who hailed from multiethnic background. The different strata of distance learners received these two modes of instruction, namely, conventional and mobile. The impact of mobile learning is visible on different learner groups having multiethnic social environment and the performance of the mobile learners is higher than the conventional learners. © 2014 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.