Could they have been faking it, to impress foreigners?
This article [1] tells the story of an entire department store that was faked to impress tourists. But that was 20 years ago, so maybe this time it isn't fake.
"Could they have been faking it, to impress foreigners?"
The BBC article linked to discusses the internal mobile phone network. Additionally, my guide would have had to also be faking the voice coming out of the phone and somehow getting information some other way and pretending to have received it on the phone. I'm going to go with actual genuine mobile phone network. :)
This article [1] tells the story of an entire department store that was faked to impress tourists. But that was 20 years ago, so maybe this time it isn't fake.
[1] http://blog.skepticaldoctor.com/2010/01/15/classic-dalrymple...