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Article: America expected to outgrow its awkward cell phone adolescence.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
- Article date:
- July 17, 2002
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Byline: Nara Schoenberg
Tired of businessmen bellowing into their cell phones, glamour girls telling all to their cell phones, cyclists swerving through traffic while paying close attention to ... their cell phones?
The good news is, it could be worse.
The bad news is, it probably will be.
The U.S., where about 40 percent of the population uses cell phones, is five years behind Japan and many parts of Northern Europe, where cell phone usage tops 50 percent. And in at least one country _ Finland _ usage has hit the 75 percent mark.