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... ’ (The Economist, March 1992) Life without a mobile is scarcely imaginable for most of us that is why mobile communications is one of the tremendous success stories of the telecommunications industry hence having had a huge impact on everyone’s everyday life. ...
This essay will discuss the wider context and economic forces need to be taken into account when considering the impact that mobile technologies have had on cultural life. The wider context will include how the mobile phone has revolutionised the world today in terms of relationships and how much one depends on the device. ... The economic factors include the fact that there is around one mobile phone for every four inhabitants. ...
Mobilisation assesses the impact of mobile technology, from the social and cultural to the political and economic. ... ‘The benefits wrought by mobility in communications are increasingly evident in terms of both economic and social development. ... ” (Fortunati 2000)
On the economic sides of things telephones are as much a form of infrastructure as roads or electricity, and competition will make them cheaper. Losses from lower prices will be countered by higher usage, and tax revenues will benefit from the faster economic growth that telephones bring about. ... There general social acceptance and the increasing economic accessibility of mobile technologies have meant that they have been adopted and used by ever more groups in society. ... But under the combined influence of technological progress on the one hand and economic deregulation on the other, the prices for landline phone calls have dramatically diminished, becoming almost independent of geographical distance, and the cell phone has become one of the most ubiquitous communicative devices. ... Their mobile phones can be used as a ‘symbolic bodyguard’ when they are in need of some security when alone or in a tricky situation. ...
It has been suggested that because mobile phones have become so popular, whether there is a need for payphones as there has been a major decline in the use and maintenance of the public phones. ... In societies where the mobile has really taken off, as in Southeast Asia, people tend to live in more collective societies. ... (New Media Age, Nov 2003)
The mobile phone is an important tool when one is need to make an emergency call because they increase the chance that somebody watching an emergency event has a phone and is disposed to make a call. ... At the beginning of December 2003, a new legislation was brought into action. ... In societies where the mobile has really taken off, as in Southeast Asia, people tend to live in more collective societies. Going to places that didnt already have telephones and the Internet and then seeing the enormous impact of the recent acquisition of a mobile phone. ... Its taken corporations by surprise. ... Mobile technology has made a huge impact on those living in developing countries, allowing the technology to be sped quickly throughout to those who are less fortunate just like the television has been.
Approximate Word count = 2988
Approximate Pages = 12
(250 words per page double spaced)
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