> Eastern Europe only started getting widespread mobile phones with the rise of cheaper, high-function smartphones in the past five to seven years. This is not

> Eastern Europe only started getting widespread mobile phones with the rise of cheaper, high-function smartphones in the past five to seven years. This is not true at all. By about the turn of the millennium, from Romania to Poland pretty much everyone who was not elderly had a mobile phone. A basic Nokia model was not very expensive even by local standards.