Addicted to tech

When when times are hard, our love of the mobile phone isn't tainted. An Ofcom survey shows we'd much rather miss out on meals out, or ditch holidays than cut back on mobile phone spending during the recession. I guess it shouldn't be too much of a surpise really, the humble mobile stepped over from luxury to necessity a good few years ago (in my mind at least). If I step out of the front door without it, the anxiety kicks in – what if someone's taken ill and needs to get hold of me? What if some illusive professor in the States I've been trying to reach for an interview for weeks tries to get in touch? Is that an addiction? If so, I guess there's a name for it.
A few other interesting factoids from Ofcom's annual report: a quarter of households now watch catch-up telly online (it's the future you know) and 68 per cent of households have a broadband link. Mobile broadband is on the up too – 250,000 of us signed up in May alone.