Three-quarters of people over 10 own a mobile phone —UN

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The United Nations' International Telecommunication Union has provided its first estimate of regional and global ownership, revealing that 73 percent of the world's population over 10 years of age owned a cellphone in 2022.

But it cautioned that mobile phone ownership remains higher than internet use—especially in lower-income countries, with broadband usually more expensive than cellular-only services.

Unsurprisingly, ownership was highest in wealthy countries, where 95 percent of people currently own a mobile phone, and lowest in low-income countries, where only 49 percent do, the ITU said.The UN's telecoms agency says roughly a third of the planet has still never been online. According to Wednesday's report, the global median price of mobile-broadband services dropped from 1.9 percent of average gross national income per capita last year to 1.5 percent now.

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