Here, the law forbidding mobile phone use except handfree is from as early as 2002, but we have absolutely zero enforcement for the law. With some of the slowest speed limits on the planet, speeding laws are strictly enforced (for simple revenue purposes; the official police stance is that you should be speeding a bit to generate budget for them; which makes complete sense, if you speed enough to generate 200 EUR ticket/camera, you are following the standard European limits!), everything else goes, including texting and talking to the phone.
Very good it's forbidden, but I'm even more concerned about people driving brain completely shut down. Just today, someone ran red lights: I pressed the horn down some 10 seconds straight, while looking directly at their face (a 50yo male). No reaction whatsoever; no head movement, no facial change. They were just driving in an autonomous droid "follow the previous car" mode. Not speeding, no "reckless driving", not driving a high-performance BMW. These are people who normally drive under speed limits, in the middle of the road (law clearly says: on the right end of the lane, period), blocking the usual traffic. When I overtake them and switch high beams on at exact correct moment, it takes some 5-10 seconds of reaction time for them to turn high beams off, if that happens at all. Because their brain is shut down. If anything unexpected happens, it's a 100% surely accident.
Officially, they are the role models because they drive at 70 km/h max. This is very funny when we have a road which would be 110 km/h in any other European country, including our neighbor Sweden, but we have the 80 km/h limit furher taken down to 70 km/h by such white Kias. It becomes even funnier when a few semi trucks get behind them and cannot overtake. Then your only option is to participate in the massive jam getting even more massive, or start "driving recklessly".