Car loans, essential to keep a spread-out population mobile and working effectively, are expected to become unaffordable for many, especially those with reduced incomes and levels of savings.
He notes that each new telecoms technology spreads more quickly than the last: fixed-line telephones took 50 years to reach 50% of the population, mobile phones took 20 years, the internet ten and broadband five in some parts of the world.
'Lava Mae' is a groundbreaking initiative in San Francisco offering the city's homeless population mobile showers and toilets in a converted bus.
Thus, if a study is designed to evaluate a policy affecting the elderly population, mobile data may not be a suitable choice.
These assessments can include a series of questions about general population mobile technology usage, personal usage and access, real and perceived safety risks, and desired uses.
Singapore has also one of the highest local population mobile phone penetration rate (150 % in 2012), hence one can often see HCWs and patients in SHP using their personal mobile phones or landlines for communication.
