10% of U.K. 5-Year-Olds have Mobile Phones

About 10 percent of all children five years old have  mobile phones, according to a new study. Some of you may realize this means those youngsters have mobile phones before they can read.

The typical age at which a U.K. child gets a mobile is 11. Some studies have found that U.S. kids tend to get their first phone at about age 12. 

Children spend an average of £11 a month on mobile costs, less than the parental average of £19, though just a quarter of parents cap their offspring's mobile phone bill, rthe study, conducgted by uSwitch.com, showed.

More than a million current under-16s had their first phone aged five, the study of 1,420 parents suggested.

When shopping for handsets, parents spend an average of £246 on themselves, more than the £125 they typically spend on the children's devices, uSwitch said.