It’s a Mobile World

The mobile phone has changed the way we communicate, and is now set to be the focus of a completely new way of paying for bus and rail journeys, and getting access to them and other services.

Most of us adore gadgets – and the one we love most is our mobile. I say ‘mobile’ in the singular, but according to the latest (2009) figures from the International Telecommunication Union, the UK has over 80 million mobile subscribers – that’s well over one per person. Mobile technology has swept through the world, connecting everyone, rich or poor, from Africa to Antarctica, sometimes (in China and Finland, for example) replacing fixed lines or creating new...