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Over half of Britons feel anxious when they lose their mobile phone,
run out of battery or credit or have no network coverage, according
to a survey published Monday.
Some 58 percent of men and 48 percent of women
panic when they hit a problem with their cellphone, while nine
percent of people feel stressed when they turn their mobiles off, it
said.
Pollsters YouGov, commissioned by the Post
Office, questioned 2,163 people online earlier this month.
Stewart Fox-Mills, head of telephony at the Post
Office, said "nomo-phobia" -- which he used to mean a fear
of being without a mobile phone -- was "very real for many
people in the UK".
"We're all familiar with the stressful
situations of everyday life such as moving house, breakups and
organising a family Christmas but it seems that being out of mobile
contact may be the 21st century's contribution to our already manic
lives," he said.
-- AFP
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