The UK has 71 million mobile handsets

And I’ve got about 10 of them in my office at the moment…

Link: Netimperative – UK now has ‘more mobiles than people’

There are now more mobile phones than people in the UK, according to research released today by first direct.

The country’s 45 million adults share almost 70 million mobile SIM cards (phone numbers) and over 71 million handsets – an average of 1.6 mobiles per adult in the UK today.
 Research by the bank found that only 12% of adults have no mobile phone. Almost half make do with just one mobile phone, but 40% of us now have more than one number.  An extraordinary one in ten (9%) have more than four mobile numbers and handsets.