{"id":234238,"date":"2026-01-12T12:59:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T12:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/234238\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T12:59:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T12:59:15","slug":"mobile-phones-ordered-in-2010-arrive-16-years-later-in-libya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/234238\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile phones ordered in 2010 arrive 16 years later in Libya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">They arrived quietly, as if ashamed of their own punctuality.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">A mobile phone dealer in Tripoli, Libya, has finally received a shipment of Nokia phones he ordered back in 2010, after an astonishing 16-year delay. <\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">The long-lost consignment, which included classic button-based Nokia models such as music-edition handsets and early \u201cCommunicator\u201d devices once seen as premium tech, was stranded due to the 2011 Libyan civil war and the collapse of the country\u2019s logistics and customs infrastructure. <\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">Both the sender and the intended recipient were located just a few kilometres apart in Tripoli, yet the package lay forgotten in warehouses for more than a decade because of conflict and instability. <\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">A <a target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/en.sputniknews.africa\/20260108\/1082260224.html\">video of the shopkeeper<\/a> unboxing the decades-old phones has gone viral on social media. <\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">In the clip, he laughs with friends and jokingly asks whether the devices are \u201cphones or artefacts,\u201d highlighting how far mobile technology has come since 2010. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They arrived quietly, as if ashamed of their own punctuality. A mobile phone dealer in Tripoli, Libya, has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[85,46,321,125],"class_list":["post-234238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-mobile","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}