Smartphone users admit addiction
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The media watchdog also found that smartphone users tend to make more calls and send more text messages than their counterparts with normal handsets – 81 per cent with smartphones make at least one call per day, compared with 53 per cent of "regular" phone owners.
In its Communications Market Report, released today, Ofcom detected a huge rise in the number of homes in the UK with internet access over the past 11 years.
In 2000, only a quarter of homes were online, a figure that has risen to 76 per cent today. And more than 90 per cent of people now own a mobile phone of some description, up from 36 per cent in 2000, the research shows.
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