Dhaka, April 4 -- The percentage of mobile phone users among the country's adolescents has long been a matter of guesswork. Till now few extensive surveys have been carried out to identify the number of these mobile users in the country. According to a recent survey, more than 90 per cent of young adults, both male and female, in the country are now accustomed to using these phones. This fact has a lot to do with the teenage students using their smart-phones to attend online classes, as schools have yet to open formally. The scene is, however, mostly limited to urban areas due to the easy availability of online facility.

As the survey has observed, at least half of the phones used by adolescents in villages are the 'smart' ones, and almo...