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Penalties for possessing a mobile phone within the school premises will be severe

Students who post videos on social media exposing or mocking their classmates during school hours will be expelled, according to the Education Ministry. 

It is the most severe penalty provided for in the penal code of the Education Ministry, which now aims to comply with the ban on mobile phones at Greek schools.

Two out of three teenagers think that if they used their mobile phones less they would perform better at school, according to the finds of a survey of 2,291 high school students and graduates by the Poukamisas Educational Center, seeking to assess their relationship with their devices and the impact in and out of school.

A 49-year-old hair salon owner in the northern Athenian suburb of Vrilissia was arrested on Saturday for the unlawful processing of personal data and for violating the illegal substances legislation.

According to the police, the investigation took place after a filed complaint, locating hidden cameras in the hair salon's toilets. 

The combined sales revenues of communications companies in Türkiye increased by 40.7 percent in 2022 compared with the previous year to reach 130 billion Turkish Liras, a report by the Information and Communication Technologies Authority (BTK) has shown.

In the final quarter alone sales revenues of those companies stood at 40 billion liras. 

A digital application for cellphones to support women facing violence at home, called "Panic Button," was introduced in Athens and Thessaloniki on March 23.

The free app is downloaded on a smartphone and activates the service by pressing on a button which sends a text message (sms) to the operational center of the police. The app contains the needed information to locate the user.

According to the data, 59 percent of Greeks cannot leave their mobile phones during the holidays

More than two dozen Serbian women remain trapped in refugee camps in Syria, waiting so far in vain to be repatriated by the Serbian state. Whispered messages via banned mobile phones provide a chilling glimpse of their day-to-day plight.

The number of mobile phone subscribers in Turkey increased to 83.5 million as of the first quarter of 2021, rising from 82.1 million at the end of 2020, data from the Information and Communication Technologies Authority (BTK) have shown.

The mobile subscriber penetration rate also climbed from 99 percent in 2020 to almost 100 percent as of the end of March.

Now, the girls, Ana and Dana, get their schooling through the cracked screen of Birca's mobile phone. The family does not own a computer, nor does it have Wifi at home.