Monday, June 2, 2008 - 2:45 PM CDT

Study: Teens spend about an hour more per day on cell phones in summer

Nashville Business Journal

School's out and that means parents can expect their teens to spend a lot more time on their cell phones, according to Cricket Wireless of Nashville.

Cricket cites a Harris Interactive survey published in July 2007 that shows teens spend an extra hour per day on their cell phones on average during the summer months.

The same survey shows just under half of teens say text messaging is their primary form of communication and one in five teens claim they cannot function without a cell phone and would rather give up television, radio, video games or going to the mall.

Text-messaging has become such a powerful teen communication tool, Cricket has started presenting information sessions on the topic to parent-teacher organizations.

A 2007 Kelton Research survey showed teens send an average of 455 text messages a month and receive 467. The same survey reported 57 percent of parents said their teen helped them improve their texting skills and 56 percent of teens said they communicate with their parents more since adopting text-messaging.

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