Perhaps I should warn fellow blogger David Butcher about mobile phones taking over countries. Well, maybe not take over, but they're certainly outnumbering the citizens.
AFP reported today that in Lithuania, there are more mobile phones than there are people. 4.1 million mobile phones for 3.4 million people? That's a lot. Don't you think?
Reading this little snippet of news today has me wondering, if there is such a surplus of mobile phones, what is to happen with all of the extra, probably soon-to-be obsolete equipment? It's no surprise, then, that in a country completely awash in mobile phones, landline subscription is down.
Another no-surpriser is that Internet subscription in Lithuania has more than doubled in the last year alone. They're also one of 10 countries to join the EU last year.
So I guess Lithuania has had all sorts of changes - technologically and politically.
Now -- what to do with the extra mobile phones?
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