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> The poorest country I'm familiar with is Zambia, where about 90% of the population have a mobile subscription.

Only 85%¹ of the population are over the age of 4. Smart kids they've got.

They still exist, though. And in my experience people in vulnerable positions have somewhere between zero and one phones at any given time, without necessarily any good continuity between them.

I don't think "fuck 10% of the population" is as strong an argument as you seem to think it is.

I'll have to remember this one the next time I hear the phone/poverty argument made in bad faith.