Perhaps Moishebatchy has access to what really lies under ppls mattresses
When you see CONSTANTLY see people wearing me'ushar phones on their belt, but furtively pulling out a so-called "treife" phone to answer a text, and this happens MANY times a day - in shul, in yeshiva, at the supermarket, at simchos - for the past FIVE YEARS, you kinda start to feel there's a pattern after a while. Want proof? Just go to any Israel simcha or speech, and count how many people are tap-tap-tapping away under the table.
When I first came to Israel 5 years ago most people - including %95 of my yeshiva - were getting kosher phones... but for one reason only: because they were dirt-cheap compared the the regular ones. True, maybe not everyone had an additional, non-kosher phone, since it was easier to just live without texting for them; but virtually everyone admitted to price being the reason. Almost nobody did it "l'sheim shamayim". And you know what the biggest proof is? Now that someone took the Israeli carriers down a peg, and regular cell service is becoming more and more affordable (think Golan), I see more people with non-kosher phones...