The city authorities in collaboration with MLAB a smart phone laboratory based in Antwerp Belgium city decided that enough is enough with people breaking their phones mostly due to "text walking" collisions while walking.
There are now believed to be more mobile phones in the world than people. According to the study by the US Census Bureau there are about 7.5 billion mobiles in the world, compared to a world population estimated to be 7.2 billion.
Mlab spokesman said "You probably walk through the streets while texting or sending Whatsapp messages to your friends and don't really pay attention to your surroundings - only to whatever is happening on your screen,"
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