TOKYO-One out of four primary school or middle-school kids in Japan have their own cellular phones, NTT DoCoMo said based on its own survey. NTT DoCoMo did the survey of 600 kids between fifth and eighth grade in the Tokyo metropolitan area between Dec. 29 and Jan. 10.
According to NTT DoCoMo, 147 kids, or 24.5 percent of the surveyed 600, have their own cellular phones. The average possession rate among elementary school kids is 19.3 percent, while among middle school kids it is 29.7 percent, DoCoMo said.
The rate is especially high among middle-school girls at 32.1 percent. Nearly half the surveyed (44.9 percent) children said that cellular phones are a necessity of their daily lives, DoCoMo said.
