Original article by Roy Morgan Research
Market Research Update – Page: Online : 23-Aug-16

A Roy Morgan Single Source survey has found that 91 per cent of Australian teens aged 14-17 (or just over one million) have a mobile phone. The survey, which was carried out in the year to June 2016, also shows that 94 per cent of teens who are mobile phone owners have a smartphone, while 75 per cent are already on to their second or subsequent handset. Meawhile, 78 per cent of mobile-owning teens say someone else pays for all or most of their usage charges, and 62 per cent got their current mobile handset brand new. Some 65 per cent are using prepaid and 35 per cent are on a postpaid plan – almost the exact reverse of the ratio in the general population.

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