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WHAT HAVE YOU GOT IN YOUR PANTS?
Mobile phones more important than wallets
Mobile phones more important than wallets
TORONTO (Reuters) - More than one-third of
workers would choose their mobile phone
over their wallet, keys, laptop or digital music
player if they had to leave the house for 24
hours and could take only one item, a new
survey has found.
The survey, conducted by market research
firm IDC and sponsored by Nortel Networks
Corp, found that while more than 38 percent
of the 2,367 people polled chose their mobile
phones, less than 30 percent chose their
wallets first.
workers would choose their mobile phone
over their wallet, keys, laptop or digital music
player if they had to leave the house for 24
hours and could take only one item, a new
survey has found.
The survey, conducted by market research
firm IDC and sponsored by Nortel Networks
Corp, found that while more than 38 percent
of the 2,367 people polled chose their mobile
phones, less than 30 percent chose their
wallets first.
Through the survey, Nortel -- North America's biggest maker of telephone gear -- was looking
to find out how many workers around the world can be defined as "hyperconnected," or as
those who have fully embraced multiple devices like cellphones and laptops, as well as
applications like e-mail or social networking sites like Facebook.
The answer: 16 percent, and growing.
The survey classified the hyperconnected worker as someone who uses at least seven
devices for work and personal access, in addition to at least nine applications like instant
messaging, text messaging or web conferencing.
The country with the highest percentage of hyperconnected respondents in the study was
China. Canada and the United Arab Emirates had the fewest number among the 17
countries covered in the survey.
The survey also predicts the number of the hyperconnected will likely rise to 40 percent in five
years. That could bode well for Toronto-based Nortel, which has bet heavily on the hope that
as bandwidth and network demand soar with more devices connecting to the Internet, so too
will demand for the network technologies it makes.
The group of hard-core communications users is followed by a larger subset -- 36 percent of
respondents -- designated as "increasingly connected," the study states. These workers use
a minimum of four devices and six applications.
However, the hope for a flood of new devices going online have yet to translate into a more
robust bottom line for Nortel, which has struggled since the technology bubble burst earlier
this decade.
to find out how many workers around the world can be defined as "hyperconnected," or as
those who have fully embraced multiple devices like cellphones and laptops, as well as
applications like e-mail or social networking sites like Facebook.
The answer: 16 percent, and growing.
The survey classified the hyperconnected worker as someone who uses at least seven
devices for work and personal access, in addition to at least nine applications like instant
messaging, text messaging or web conferencing.
The country with the highest percentage of hyperconnected respondents in the study was
China. Canada and the United Arab Emirates had the fewest number among the 17
countries covered in the survey.
The survey also predicts the number of the hyperconnected will likely rise to 40 percent in five
years. That could bode well for Toronto-based Nortel, which has bet heavily on the hope that
as bandwidth and network demand soar with more devices connecting to the Internet, so too
will demand for the network technologies it makes.
The group of hard-core communications users is followed by a larger subset -- 36 percent of
respondents -- designated as "increasingly connected," the study states. These workers use
a minimum of four devices and six applications.
However, the hope for a flood of new devices going online have yet to translate into a more
robust bottom line for Nortel, which has struggled since the technology bubble burst earlier
this decade.