To see a youngster without a mobile phone attached to the end of their arms is very rare indeed.
Experts believe that our future generations won´t be able to function without a cellphone. Although is not very clear whether this will create anti-social people or help advance their development making them functional adults.
A 16 year old teen was given her first cellphone when she was 11. She now has incredible thumb skills, as she rarely uses her cellphone to make calls but to send SMS.
Social Networks are another way in which teenagers keep in touch and in the case of this young lady even four hours a day!
Teenagers would rather choose a cellphone over new clothes they tend to spend most of their monthly allowance in their cellphone contracts.
The difference between the new generation and past generations is that the new generation uses cellphones for communication only. A cellphone is a way for us to keep in touch with friends and family, to look for entertainment to do banking etc. Cellphones are not dominating our lives “is ho we do life”
Source: Times Live
The mafia in Italy is using a TV show about football which allows text ticker to send coded messages to their bosses in jail.
The program allows football fans to send SMS text messages. This messages then are broadcast along a ticker tape at the bottom of the screen.
Prosecutors believe that members of the mafia send football related comments and remarks to the program, this texts in fact contained important messages for their bosses that are in jail. One of the messages read “All is well Paolo”
“What was shocking was the apparent inoffensive comments of the SMS messages but in reality they were sending precise communications to mafia bosses which don´t have any other means to have outside world communication“.
The unusual way of “outside communication was discovered when conversation was intercepted between two mafia men and how one was telling the other one how he would send a text message to the program.
Unfortunately that means that the program won´t allow their fans anymore to send text messages to the program.
Source: Telegraph.
Vodacom SA Group, announced that its revenues in the fiscal first-quarter has not been good despite of the one million new customers.
New mobile operators are aiming to enter the African continent, as is one of the few world regions in which mobile telephones are not very much in used. One of Africa´s largest mobile operator MTN Group Ltd, will be adding 20 million more users this year. Bhartu Airtell Ltd (Indian operator) has announced that is planning to spend over $1 billion improving its newly acquired networks in Africa.
Vodacom, has also announced that it´s customers base has decrease 37.7 million in the last three months due to a new “disconnection policy” by the South African government. This new law has introduced new and strict registration laws for mobile users. Vodacom which is majority owned by UK´s Vodafone Group, gets 87% of its sales from their South Africa market, as it´s the largest operator use in Soiuth Africa.
Vodacom has gained more customers in countries like Tanzania, Congo, Mozambique, Lesotho, but unfortunately the revenue coming from this countries has fell about 15% due to the strength of the rand.
A business consultant from Frost & Sullivan, said that Vodacom has to try expand its overall operations in order to improve performance as its current operations are not running smoothly therefore they need to minimize the risk otherwise they will face future bigger losses.
Source: WSJ.com
USA Today reports a new survey on kids in cyberspace. According to the survey one in five teens have “sexted” — sent or received sexually suggestive, nude or nearly nude photos through cellphone sms text messages or e-mail.
Most teens who sexted sent the photos to girlfriends or boyfriends, but 11% sent them to strangers, according to the study made public today by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and Cox Communications. Of teens who sext, 80% are under 18, the survey found.
