Mobile Phone- A Necessity Rather Than A Luxury

Mobile phone has become a necessity of the day in every country whether it is poor or rich. In Pakistan, the phone set be seen in every body's hands and stuck to ears. They may be young ones, old people, girls or a cart man, rickshaw driver or taxi driver, mason or laborer. Of course, it helps to find passengers for taxi drivers or a mason can find his job called by the needy person having some construction work. One has not to sit in home and call through land -line but going to school or on work one can know about his relatives, friends or kids. It is no doubt now a necessary item and a lot of jobs can be done by using it.
In Pakistan the Telecom sector deposited Rs. 50 billion and 870 million in the government treasury as tax, last year.Thus helped the government a lot.
In the world population of 6 b and 877 m, 5 b SIMS( Subscriber identity module) are in use. Till the end of current fiscal year the number of SIMS in use would rise to 5 b 300 m, among these 3 b and 800 m SIMS will be used in the developing countries.Hongkong has a population of 7 m but the number of mobiles in use is 10.65 m, which is nearly 1.5 times higher than its population. The highest number of mobiles use in the world is in China where 0.833 b mobiles are used, in India the number is 0.676 b and on third number is USA where 0.2856 mobiles are in use. Pakistan has a population of 160 m while 100.95 m mobiles are in use that is 65.1 % of the population. Denmark, Russia, Germany, England, Spain, Poland, Taiwan, Holland, Belgium and Israel are those countries where mobile phones used are more than their population.
The craze of purchasing the precious mobile sets and then getting the unique number' SIM has started a new race of status symbol. Last week a prince from Kuwait's royal family purchased a costly number called "Super Golden Mobile Phone Number" 55555555 in an open bid for 0.210 m Kuwaiti Dinars and got his name recoded in the "Guineas Book of World Record"
SMS (Short Messaging Service) extended by the mobile companies is a unique, simple and easy short messaging service and people take advantage of it. During the current year 6.1 b SMS were exchanged in the world.
In Pakistan people having no surplus balance in the account miscall the friends to call back, while, no where in the world miscall method is used.Here people upload songs on mobile sets that is heard by the receiver and mostly during the prayers in the mosques the mobile start singing. However, it is an atomic age and many constructive invention will come and may be many destructive too to destroy the world humanity.
However, some times it is used for subversive and terrorist activities too as a dangerous tool. Like in bomb blasts. Therefore, in Dera Ismail Khan (KPK) it has been used in sectarian killings and other destructive activities , so in the city and surrounding areas , the mobile towers have been closed and jammers have been installed in the city. So, at least D I Khan people are deprived of this useful instrument, but ban is for their safety that they have accepted happily and use land line telephone now, which had been disconnected priorly.