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This is a list of countries by smartphone penetration. These numbers are based on the top countries by percentage of population owning a smartphone (so smaller countries are absent) and come from Newzoo's Global Mobile Market Report (the numbers were last updated in June 2021).
As an important caveat, this list does not provide the number of mobile phones in use. It is common for each SIM card has a separate phone number, so phones with multiple SIM cards will have multiple phone numbers. As another caveat, some mobile phone numbers may be used by machines as a modem, such as intrusion detection systems, home ...
Below is a sortable list of countries by number of Internet users as of 2024. Internet users are defined as persons who accessed the Internet in the last 12 months from any device, including mobile phones. [Note 1] Percentage is the percentage of a country's population that are Internet users. Estimates are derived either from household surveys ...
The National Center for Education Statistics also reported in 2020 that 77% of schools had rules forbidding students from using their cell phones during school hours.
The digital divide can be displayed when individuals must use smartphones in the absence of access to other devices. 41% of African Americans and 47% of English-speaking Hispanics send and receive email on cell phones, as compared to 30% of Whites.
CalMatters reports on how California's governor is calling for a statewide crackdown on cell phones in schools, an idea that is gaining traction in multiple states. Schools that banned phones a ...
School districts in 41 states have spent $2.5 million to buy phone pouches from Yondr, according to Govspend, a database of government contracts and purchases.
An increasing number of people are also beginning to use applications like Qik to upload and share their videos from their cell phone to the internet. [ citation needed ] Mobile phone software like Qik allows user to share their videos to their friends through emails , SMS , and even social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook .