There are reports today that the government of North Korea has banned mobile phones. Details are sketchy.
The country banned the use of mobile phones in late May, according to reports quoting a North Korean official in the country’s capital of Pyongyang. The ban may be due to the deadly train explosion in the country in April, which North Korean officials have said was triggered by a mobile phone. Mobile phones have been used to trigger explosions in other attacks across the world. (…)
By the middle of last year, the country counted 40 base stations and about 1,000 users. North Korea has a total population of about 22.5 million people. In contrast, South Korea counts 35 million wireless subscribers and a 75-percent wireless penetration rate (…)
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