10 October 2007
A new survey on globalisation by the Pew Research Center has shown the increasingly central place which mobile phones have in our lives.
Pew researchers surveyed 35 countries around the world for the report, which investigated internet, email and phone use.
Compared with when the same survey was undertaken in 2002, a "dramatic" increase in mobile phone use was detected.
Britain now has one of the highest rates of mobile ownership in the world at 83% - up from 76% five years ago.
While a 20% increase (to 81%) in mobile ownership was detected in the US, the technology was found to be expanding even faster in the developing world - with Russia and Nigeria showing 57 and 56% increases respectively.
Computer and internet use has also risen worldwide in 26 of the countries surveyed.
Just 55% of Britons owned a computer in 2002 - a figure which now stands at 73%.
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