Ok, we already had Hezbollah's own phone network, but that was more a matter of avoiding government/Israeli spying. But fundamentalist religious groups seem to be getting into the idea of having their own mobile phones.
The Israeli ultra-orthodox have invented the 'kosher phone':
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The kosher cellphone looks like an ordinary cellphone, can make and receive calls, and may have a calculator and alarm clock.
But it cannot send or receive text messages, browse the internet or take photos - all activities that could potentially involve behaviour considered "immodest" among Haredis.
For example, SMS capability could lead to the unwitting receipt of mass text messages publicising secular events. It could also be used as a method of illicit communication between male and female teenagers.
And all photos of women are forbidden, as is accessing websites with content deemed inappropriate.
The phone's other defining feature is a rabbinical stamp of approval, similar to those seen on kosher food items.
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BBC NEWS | Middle East | Is that cellphone kosher?
And now I just read on a Dutch news site that the Polish priest Tadeusz Rydzyk wants to set up a Catholic network in Poland. Rydzyk has been reprimanded by the Vatican a couple of times for fiery nationalist and anti-semitic speeches on his own radio station Radio Maria (he is what you might call more Catholic than the pope). Rydzyk will be promoting his network amongst his listeners, he has about 1 to 4 million, many of whom have no mobile phones
according to Nu.nl.
The Catholic network will offer text prayers and Catholic ringtones it says.
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