Factoid of the day: Mobile mania

The New York Times, in an excellent piece about why "the next big thing is small, cheap and not American," offers this stunner about the ubiquity of cell phones across the globe:

"The number of mobile subscriptions in the world is expected to pass five billion this year, according to the International Telecommunication Union, a trade group. That would mean more human beings today have access to a cellphone than the United Nations says have access to a clean toilet."