The speed and scale of the world’s love affair with mobile phones was revealed yesterday in a UN report that showed more than half the global population now pay to use one.

The survey, by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), an agency of the UN, also found that nearly a quarter of the world’s 6.7 billion people use the internet.

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http://www.telconews.com/2009/03/03/half-worlds-population-now-uses-a-mobile-phone-quarter-use-the-internet