Eighty percent in 30 industrial nations use cell phones

Pollster TNS has completed a survey of 30 industrialized countries to find that cell phones are in the hands of 80 percent of adults aged 16 to 60.

Mexico, Vietnam, and Canada were the three countries with the lowest percentage of cell phone users, perhaps due to less competition in those countries, which results in less innovation. Only two-thirds of Canadians use the little communication gadgets, far below the world’s leading user – the United Kingdom. In the UK an overwhelming 97 percent in the age group use mobile communication.

Canadians also hold onto their phones for a longer period, 42 months, than their southern neighbors who exchange their phones every two and a half years.