90% of US College Students Own a Cell Phone and Other Mobile Stats

“In 2000, just over 33% of US college students had cell phones on campus, according to a national survey by Student Monitor. In the fall of 2004, nearly 90% did. [via ItFacts]

On this same page from ItFacts is a mile long list of ‘Mobile usage statistics’ from around the world. Here are just a few:

-- 171.2 million Americans have cell phones
-- 300 million cell phone subscribers in China by the end of 2004
-- 36% of personal calls are made from cellphones…
-- 75.5 Americans to use SMS by 2007…
-- Americans send 2.5 bln text messages a month“ [textually.org]

You can tell yourself that these trends won’t affect libraries, but you’d just be burying your head in the sand.