You'd be surprised. I've been in a village in rural India where there were open sewers at the sides of the unpaved roads and there was still a massive mobile ph

You'd be surprised. I've been in a village in rural India where there were open sewers at the sides of the unpaved roads and there was still a massive mobile phone mast just next to it. Someone told me that 800 million people in India have mobile phones. I don't think it's that people are picking phones over toilets, I think it's that organising large infrastructure in a poor and corrupt environment is a lot harder than having a personal phone (that is important for employment and other communications) that uses fairly lightweight private infrastructure.