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Over 80% of all UK adults now own a mobile phone and according to easyMobile research half of them believe they “couldn’t live without their mobile phone”.

But one in four adults consider the complexity in tariffs and contracts the single most annoying thing about them.

Stelios, founder and chairman of the easy Group of companies, says,

“I grew up in an era when technology, travel and a whole new world of experience was not available to anyone other than the well-off. I saw it as a mission to make exclusive products available to ordinary people.

As a company we’ve become well-known for removing complexity in products that people want made simple and accessible. We challenged the airline, car hire, cruise and hotel industries to make travel simpler and available to everyone. We introduced easy Internet cafes to make the web an information tool for all and our latest innovation is to make mobile phones easier.”

Stelios launched easyMobile onto the high street last month with The Link stores nationwide after several months of trialling it on the internet. “We don’t demand contracts and we don’t charge for line rental. We sell a mobile phone handset with £10 worth of airtime for less than £25 and our tariff is simplicity itself,” he says.

Dr Papadopoulos of London Guildhall University says:
“The essence of technology should always be to make our lives easier. Unfortunately, we often feel like we have become technology’s slave. My top tips to enjoy the benefits of technology without allowing them to dominate our lives would be:

• Make a point of turning off your phone regularly – that way you can enjoy something else like a conversation with friends, a good book or film, or a walk without interruption.

• Don’t use text or emails as a substitute for conversation, only as a time-saving device when necessary.

• Use the internet for research and help but go out and join other people in a club or course to learn more about things you’re interested in with like-minded human beings.”

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Just ten years since experts predicted a rosy future for everyone who had access to the ‘information superhighway’ – as the internet was then known – people are facing ‘technology burnout’, according to new research(1).

The vast majority of British people of all ages think that their parents had easier, simpler lives and much of the stress levels in modern life are blamed on technology, with nearly two thirds of adults thinking life was once easier because people had less technology to deal with.

Even younger ‘techno-dependent’ adults (74% of whom “could not live without their mobile phone”) think technology brings excess complexity to life – over 50% of 18-24 year olds born after the technology boom of the early 1980s believe their parents had an easier lot simply because they had less technology in their lives.

“It’s interesting that the very things that were supposed to set us free are now blamed for causing us more stress,” says psychologist, Dr Linda Papadopoulos, Senior Lecturer in Counselling Psychology at the London Guildhall University . “Back in the mid 1970s one of the favourite TV programmes was The Good Life because - even then - there was a sense of wanting to get back to a simpler way of living. As the technology that was supposed to make things easier has exploded in the intervening 30 years, it seems people have become ever more stressed by the complexity of having to include more technology in their lives.”

That said, today’s gadgets have now become firmly established within the fabric of our everyday lives.

The top 10 technology revolutions we say we couldn’t live without according to research conducted for easyMobile are:

1. ATMs (cash points) 54%

2. Mobile phone 47%

3. Internet 39%

4. Email 32%

5. Text messaging 30%

6. Satellite / cable TV 28%

7. Directory enquiries 19%

8=.SatNav 16%

8=.Grocery home deliveries 16%

10.MP3/iPod 14%

(1) Research by ICM on behalf of easyMobile, March 2006.

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For one day only, easyMobile are offering free UK call and text charges, giving people the opportunity to phone & text your friends, family & work colleagues for free!

All calls & texts made on Friday the 19th May 2006 to standard UK landline & Mobile phones are free.

You can order your sim card directly from easyMobile - but it is unlikely to arrive by tomorrow. However, you can get one from The Link - the only retailer on the high street that offers easyMobile.

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