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Mobile Phone Use Surges During COVID-19 Lockdown – Forbes
Social and workplace restrictions imposed as part of the Covid-19 lockdown resulted in mobile phone conversations lasting longer, according to the market regula…
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Figures from Ofcom, the communications market regulator, show we began to spend more time on our phones due to the changes wrought on society by the coronavirus lockdown.
Ofcom analysed data culled from 200,000 Android mobile phone users between January and April this year. It found marked differences in how people used their phones before and during the initial lockdown period.
In the weeks before social and working restrictions began in late March, the average mobile call was around 3…
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