[Worldwatch Institute reports growing access to mobile phone use and mobile Internet by world's developing regions.]

"The Washington-based Worldwatch Institute says that in developing countries, the proportion of people with access to a phone has grown over the past 10 years by more than 25%.

One in five of the world's population had used a mobile phone by 2002, it reports - up from one in 237 in 1992.

The relatively low cost of mobile reception masts has driven this trend."

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