Cell-Phone Obsolescence between 18-24 months

Planned Obsolescence is what driving our consumption most widely in the technology industry. I wanted to share some informations about the cell-phone industry. Cell-phone is the most widely technology used around the world with 1-billion cell-phones sold in 2009 globally! More than that, 97 of 100 households owns a cell-phone in the industrialized countries. Data shows that average planned obsolescence for cell-phone are between 18 to 24 months in the USA. This average is highly dictated by the duration of our cell-phone operator that incite us to sign up for a new 2-year plan as soon as we hit the 18 months old contract.
As an example, AT&T is giving $200 discount on any phones to the 12-18 months old customers. They add $200 on this amount for customer between 18 to 24 months old to incite them to continue their plan and change their cell-phone. Steve Job, Apple C.E.O., announced that the first generation of iPhone would not support the new OS System coming up this summer. This will lead to an increase of used iPhone. There is no recycle plan being offered with by Apple at this time.

I think a good way to minimize our consumption is to buy, consume and recycle cleverly. I'm attaching to this article 2 interesting websites, the first one is giving you information in the process of recycling your cell-phone and the second one is giving you information about how to clear all the data from your cell-phone (contacts, pictures etc...).

Call 2 Recycle Website

How To Clear Your Cell-Phone Data

Schahram Rezai-Ahvanoui