Kids Not Buying Mobile Phones In The US
from the too-expensive-or-too-ugly dept
Despite all the hype about Generation Y and their lust for wireless devices, it appears that kids in the US just aren't buying. There's a few reasons for this. One is that the cool looking phones are just too expensive for your average teenager. Of course, they would never be seen chatting on an ugly cheap phone. The other problem is that schools tend not to allow cell phones, though, I would think that would add incentive for kids to sneak phones in - since they'd be breaking some rules.
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