It is amazing to see how fast and how far the mobile phone has spread. Because it extends a basic human quality—the ability to communicate—there are few aspects of life that it fails to touch.

Teenagers have become the channel through which mobile phones have found their way into the wider society. The young were also the first to see the potential of the text messaging. More than two million text messages were sent around the world alone, and by 2004 this had grown to 8 million!