Mobile phone has been a daily necessity towards every human in almost every age group. Mobile phones nowadays are capable of so many things compared to the first ever mobile phone that was created in 1970s that looked like a brick with an antenna. As the title suggest, mobile phone ownership has exploded globally. This could be confirmed as the use of mobile phones are expanding to not only MEDC like the U.S., but also the LEDCs like Kenya. Even though the use of phone has exploded, but the usage of mobile phones in the two countries mentioned are different, which also made The US a periphery and Kenya as a core in terms of the mobile phone usage.

The use of mobile phones in America is very wide as 90% of them owns a mobile phone and 64% of these people owns a smartphone. All these smartphone users are “smartphone dependent” because the smartphone can do almost everything from calculating to providing information through the internet. Most of the Americans used their mobile phone to send or receive text messages or accessing the internet. There are also a contrast between the high income population and the lower income population which creates a big disparity in percentage of mobile phone ownership. This could be proven because the there are more people with higher education that are using mobile phones compared to people who only studied up to high school. Besides that, people who have higher income would have the highest probability of owning a personal mobile phone compared to people who earns less than $30,000/year. Finally, there are more people in suburban areas who owns a phone than people who live in urban or rural areas. This is because the ones who live in the suburban area are the rich people and since this is the US, people with higher income would not live in the urban areas. But what made a country a core or periphery is the way the population uses