Taking a simple average of 14 countries, the share of people households where at least one person had a mobile phone increased from 67% in 2008 to 86% in 2013 1.20).The poorest quintile saw the greatest absolute increase (28 percentage points) and the richest quintile lallesl (10 percentage points). The strong expansion of mobile telephony in the poorest segment has been partly its relatively low cost (Crane, 2015), while growth has been much more limited in the richest quintile because ; to mobile telephony in this income bracket was already quite high in 2008. Again, mobile phone access tended to increase by more among between 2008 and 2013.