Recycled Cellphones
It's reassuring to know that the technology our culture discards so eagerly lives a full and useful life elsewhere:
With the number of cell phones in use worldwide hitting 2 billion and rising, recycled phones are playing a crucial role in the spread of wireless communications across the developing world, where land lines can be costly or unavailable.The odds are good that a refurbished cell phone in the pocket of a user in Bolivia, Jamaica, Kenya, Ukraine or Yemen originated with ReCellular Inc. Based in small-town Michigan, ReCellular gets 75,000 used phones a week - most collected in charity fundraisers - and refurbishes them for sale around the world.
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A recent BBC report showed a worrying trend with bank account details being accessed from recycled PC's. With mobile phones storing more and more data these days, I'm sure it won't be long before the same problem starts arising.
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Claus [08.21.06 06:45 AM]
The numbers don't really add up do they? If they both want recycled phones to matter in a 2 billion phone market and want ReCellular to have significant market share recycling approx 3 million phones per year aren't they missing a couple of zeros at one end of the equation?