Perhaps. After years of being criticised by environmental campaigners for their poor green credentials, companies were falling over each other at this week’s Mobile World Congress, the sector’s biggest annual get-together, to proclaim their transformation.The industry’s trade body, the GSM Association, has coralled handset makers and mobile networks to create a universal mobile phone charger (hopefully to be introduced later in the year), as chargers often outlast phones.To read this report in full in The Guardian, see:
www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/feb/19/green-mobile-phone-industry
Is the mobile phone industry really turning itself green?
Perhaps. After years of being criticised by environmental campaigners for their poor green credentials, companies were falling over each other at this week’s Mobile World Congress, the sector’s biggest annual get-together, to proclaim their transformation.