PSA: India has more mobile phones than toilets

[Analog]

India's mobile subscribers totalled 563.73 million at the last count, enough to serve nearly half of the country's 1.2 billion population. But just 366 million people - around a third of the population - had access to proper sanitation in 2008, said the study published by the United Nations University, a UN think-tank. "It is a tragic irony to think in India, a country now wealthy enough that roughly half of the people own phones," so many people "cannot afford the basic necessity and dignity of a toilet," said Zafar Adeel, the UN University director.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...ore-mobile-phones-than-toilets-UN-report.html

 

[ElFenix]

i thought they crapped into a hole like the middle east

 

[D1gger]

This is also true in my house. Four people, four cell phones, only three toilets.

Whatever shall we do???

 

[Gillbot]

I agree, probably same in US. One toilet in my house, 3 cell phones.

 

[BlahBlahYouToo]

they don't wash their hands either.

 

[Rubycon]

Well that explains why metropolitan cell service is so crappy!

 

[Lonyo]

This is also true in my house. Four people, four cell phones, only three toilets.

Whatever shall we do???

It didn't actually say less toilets, it said access to sanitation.
The OP's thread title is misleading compared to what the article is about.

All 4 people in your house have access to sanitation, so 100% mobile phone, 100% sanitation, vs 50% mobile phone, 30% sanitation in India.

 

[SandEagle]

india lol

 

[dainthomas]

But which hand do they hold their phones with?

 

[Fingolfin269]

Those are some shitty statistics.

 

[Rubycon]

But which hand do they hold their phones with?

Well if you hear an echo with garbled voice it may not be the provider's fault (weak reception, etc.) they may have dropped it in their bowl! D:

Dell probably pays for those cell phones.

 

[Red Squirrel]

It's sad to think that there are people out there compiling such useless statistics. Our tax dollars at work lol.

 

[slackerinabox]

It's sad to think that there are people out there compiling such useless statistics. Our tax dollars at work lol.

Aren't you Canadian?