Friday, August 27, 2010

Women, minorities biggest users of mobile phones, survey says - CNN.com

Women, minorities biggest users of mobile phones, survey says - CNN.com: Women text and talk on their mobile phones more than men.

African-Americans and Hispanics use their phones more than whites, and Southerners out-chat their northern neighbors while on the go.

And here's a real shocker: Teenagers text way more than anybody else.

Those are the findings of a yearlong survey by the Nielsen Co. The statistics firm studied the monthly mobile phone bills of more than 60,000 U.S. customers.

Women in the survey, whose findings were released Tuesday, spent about 22 percent more time chatting on mobile phones than men. They spent about 856 minutes per month on the line, on average, compared with 667 minutes for men.

Women also texted more, sending or receiving an average of 601 texts per month, compared with 447 for men.