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Between 80 and 90% of us have a mobile phone
The truth of this claim is manifestly obvious. The worldwide growth in
the use of mobile phones is viral. The references below provide further
evidence for those who remain sceptical:
- More
than half of all 10-year-olds have own mobile
- Mobile phones have penetrated the primary school, with 51 per cent
of all 10-year-olds owning their own phone. By the time youngsters reach
secondary school, the proportion with their own phone rises to 91 per
cent ...
- The Times, 19 September 2006
- Mobile
madness consumes the UK
- Fully 85% of the adult population of Britain own a mobile, while four
out of five children own a phone by the time they are 11.
- The Sunday Times, 21 May 2006
- No
network: can we live without our mobile phones?
- Today there are more than 55 million mobile phone subscribers in Britain
- The Times, 8 June 2005
- Homo
mobiliens
- Individuals carry mobiles, almost without exception (55 million subscribers
in this nation of 60 million souls) ...
- The Times, 8 June 2005
- Mobiles
rack up 20 years of use
- ... mobile phones have become an integral part of modern life and now
almost 90% of Britons own a handset.
- BBC News, 1 January 2005
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