Obscenity spread out by mobile phone users more or less hampers study of nearly 90 per cent of its users, who are also students of Dhaka University (DU), a research revealed recently. Over 50 per cent users of mobile phone face different types of physical and mental problems due to use of their mobile, said the research.

A team of the students of DU, directed by Abu Hossain Muhammad Ahsan, a teacher of the Public Administration Department of the university, released the findings of the research. Nearly 64 per cent mobile phone users, including 33 per cent female users, suffer from different physical problems such as headache, low hearing, disturb in sleeping and chest pain and 53 per cent face different mental problems including aggravation, bad temper and feeling boredom.

On an average 40 per cent users talk over mobile more than one hour and nearly 15 per cent users of the university students talk more than four hours. A large number of the users talk at midnight leaving sleep, which indicate wastage of time by the DU students in talking over mobile with others that harm study of the students, said the research.

Irrespective of gender, 63.34 per cent of the users feels disturbance through their mobile phones in different ways including frequent miscall and unexpected SMS from others' mobile phone, found the research. Nearly three-fourth of the users confessed that they have to spent extra time in accounting cost and benefit of different alluring offers given for the time after midnight by various mobile phone companies, which is a another cause of hampering of students' study, stated the research.

The research suggested the concerned authority to take effective measures to stop the mobile companies' tempting offers during the time for saving valuable time of the users primarily the students. In fear of losing personal mobile set, nearly 87 per cent of the users, where female users are more than the male users, have to suffer extra tension, said the research. Mentioning the cyber centres as a main sources of spreading out obscenity through mobile, the research also recommended to protect the cyber centres from different harmful sites to make the young generation free from different harmful impacts.

-New Nation