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Wiki Update for Week 6: S-Curve Chart for Mobile Phone Adoption
This S-Curve shows the rate of adoption of mobile phones for the United States from 1985-present. The data follows Rogers' diffusion expectations for this type of technology. As the population of the U.S. according to the U.S. Census Bureau is hovering about 311,887,614 people, there are relatively few people left in the U.S. that have not adopted a cell phone or a significant amount that have more than one phone per person. []. The adoption was slow at first because of the high cost (mostly used by executives), but in the early 1990s, the adoption increased due to its fashion popularity (Rogers, p. 262). The saturation of the cell phone into the population will aid in the diffusion of the cell phone into the classroom. In my research, I came across an interesting chart of statistics for the usage of cell phones around the world and the attitudes of using cell phones during different activities: []