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In this study, the developments on mobile phone are summarized and examined the effects of some socio-economics variables on mobile phone usage of the university students. For this purpose, a survey was conducted on the students at Pamukkale University. The students mostly prefer to use prepaid plans. They have mobile phone expenditures of 30 TL as they have average income of 471 TL monthly. They talk on mobile phone and also send message much more than the mean of Turkey. They communicate with 4-5 persons by mobile phone for daily and renovate handsets about every two years. Model estimations show that as income, food expenditure, number of handset, usage experience and talking time increase, mobile phone expenditures increase. However, it decreases as housing expenditures increases. Income elasticity of mobile phone expenditure is 0.35 for the students. This result shows that mobile phone has become a compulsory good for the university students.

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