THE EFFECT OF MOBILE PHONES ON STUDENTS' ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE DOC

Title THE EFFECT OF MOBILE PHONES ON STUDENTS' ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE
Author Olanrewaju Akinwale
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CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study A mobile phone is a device that can basically make and receive calls over a radio link while moving around a wide geographic area. (Pew Research center, 2010). It does so by connecting to a cellular network provided by a mobile phone operator, all...


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CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study A mobile phone is a device that can basically make and receive calls over a radio link while moving around a wide geographic area. (Pew Research center, 2010). It does so by connecting to a cellular network provided by a mobile phone operator, allowing access to the public telephone network. The ancient types of Mobile phones support limited services and examples were shown in Fig. 1.1. Such as, calling, sending messages and very few for taking pictures. However, the modern phones support very wide range variety of other services apart from making and receive calls and examples were shown in Fig. 1.2. These include; text messaging, MMS, e-mail, internet access, short range wireless communications [(Infrared, Bluetooth, File Transfer Protocol, (FTP)], business applications, gaming and photography. 1...


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