Socio-economic impact of mobile phones

Abstract

In this paper the authors will try to identify, and measure where possible, social and economic impacts attributable to increase in the number of mobile phone subscribers. While different aspects of growth e.g. GDP and mobile penetration for a country can be correlated; measuring exact contribution of it, is not the scope of this work. Apart from economic aspects the sociological changes being brought about by increased use of mobile is also going to be discussed. A more qualitative analysis is done in this regard due to difficulty in obtaining primary or secondary data. The paper concludes with the observation that invent of mobile telephony has had significant impact on social and economic aspects of society. Keywords: Mobile phones, socio-economic effects of mobile phones