Forwarding Letter

To Ms. Nabila Tahreen & Mr. Md. Abdulla Al Masud Department of Industrial and Production Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology(BUET), Dhaka

Dear Sir,

It is our pleasure to present to you the report on Impact of cell phone in our daily life. We are very grateful to you for giving us this opportunity and we would like to thank you for your cordial help while writing the report. We have tried to focus on the positive and negative impacts of cell phone in our daily life and showed related information in this report. We have tried our best to follow your guidelines in every aspect on our report which way you directed us. We have collected statistics and showed them in our report. Here we tried our best to submit the gist of this topic and acquaint you with it. We think that this report will clarify the readers concept as far as possible. Sincerely yours, Himangshu Kumar Paul (0808018) Monirul Islam Russell (0808020) Robiul Islam (0808019)

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Preface
The purpose of this report is to explain the impact of cell phone in our life. Cell phone is the most interesting invention of modern science. Cell phones have become increasingly popular in recent years. While people of different ages find cell phones convenient and useful, younger generations tend to appreciate them more and be more dependent on them. This device not only made our life easy and comfortable but also made ourselves dependent on it. From communication to education, cultural to technological, on every sector, cell phone has established a different position for itself. But, at the same time this device also made adverse impact on our relationship and social values. Considering these scenario in our daily life, we have made emphasize on the positive and negative impact of cell phone in our life.

We hope you will find this report informative and useful, and will be concerned about the misuses of cell phone and health hazard associated with the use of cell phone. We welcome your comments and suggestions and also criticisms which makes our report more appropriate.

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Acknowledgement
We owe a great many thanks to a great many people who helped and supported us during the writing of this report.

We would like to express our gratitude to specially the Department of Industrial and Production Engineering, BUET for giving the opportunity to acquire practical knowledge through the Business Communication Seminar course.

Our deepest thanks to our course teachers, Nabila Tahreen, Assistant Professor, Department of IPE, BUET and Md. Abdulla Al Masud, Lecturer, Department of IPE, BUET for their guidance and valuable suggestions for this report. We would also thank our faculty members without whom this project would have been a distant reality.

Finally, we would like to give thanks to all those who either directly or indirectly helped us in various ways to complete this report work.

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Table of Contents
Page Forwarding Letter Preface Acknowledgement Table of Contents Table of Illustrations Abstract 1. Introduction 2. History of Cell Phone 3. Growth of Telecommunication Sector 3.1 Top 10 Cell Phone Brands 3.2 Top 5 Mobile Operating System 3.3 Top 10 Mobile Network Operators 4. Growth of Telecommunication Sector in Bangladesh 5. Features of Cell Phone 5.1 Basic Features 5.2 Mid-range Features 5.3 Advanced Features 6. Advantages of Mobile Phone 6.1 Cell phone makes our life compact and easier 6.2 Mobile Phones Communication Made Easy 6.3 Cell Phones as Learning Tools 6.4 The Cell Phone Now thats Entertainment 6.5 Use as a Lifesaver 6.6 Economical Benefit 6.7 Cultural Benefit 6.8 Crime Prevention and Cell Phone 6.9 Cell Phone and Photography
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7. Negative Impacts of Cell Phones 7.1 Negative effects of Cell Phone 7.2 Physical effects of Cell Phone 7.3 Economical effect of Cell Phone 7.4 Social effects of Cell Phone 7.5 Effects on Communication

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List of References Bibliography

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Table of Illustrations
Name of the Table Table 1: Top mobile network operators Page No. 5

Name of the Figure Figure 1: a) Motorola DynaTac 8000X, first cell phone; b) Evolution of cell phone in size Figure 2: Worldwide mobile subscribers in 2006 & 2009 Figure 3: Active cell phone subscribers in Bangladesh Figure 4: Use of cell phone in various purposes Figure 5: Maasai tribesmen today in Kenya rely on their cell phone technology Figure 6: Mobile used in improving access to education Figure 7: Playing Soccer in Mobile Phone Figure 8: Mobile used for Entertainment Figure 9: Mobile used as a Life Saver Figure 10: Political uprisings using Mobile Figure 11: Mobile used for Photography Figure 12: Images by Mobile Phone Figure 13: Images by Mobile Phone Figure 14: Two mobile phone & egg

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Abstract
Cell phone has changed our life in many ways. From the invention of wireless telephone in 1908 to the production of first commercial cell phone in 1983, this technology took so long to become popular. But in around 25 years it has become the most accepted and most used technology. Now a day, we cannot think of our life without cell phone. Around 7 billion cell phones are being used today and telecommunication sector is earning revenue of more than 2.7 trillion dollar. Even in Bangladesh 90 million subscribers using cell phone which is approximately 60 percent of total population. Cell phone not only made communication easier but also made our lives easier. Business, education, culture, communication, technology, impact of cell phone is everywhere.

But, even the greatest boon have some curses also. Cell phone is creating bad impact on the social values. Young generation is becoming addicted to cell phone which is leading to falsehood; unhealthy relationship etc. use of cell phone also facilitates crime sometime. Excessive use of cell phone is harmful for the human body and brain. Accident rate increases due to use of cell phone during driving. To avoid these mishaps, we have to use cell phone in a proper way, by maintaining rules and regulations.

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