Taken from The Mobile Communication Society (Manuel Castell's):"Mobile telephony has also changed our working world. Indeed, first adopters of the device were truckers, construction workers and maintenance engineers166 and the device was thought of as a tool for work, basically because of its price. However, it became more widely adopted, thanks to the use that other social stratums made of the device once mobile communication costs became affordable.
Mobile telephony, indeed, first affected what we can call mobile workers, that is, the staff that works both at the office and out of the office. Although the nature of displacements are not the same, here we are considering both long distance travels and short distance ones. So then, for instance, a mobile worker could be a commercial that has to visit different clients located in the same city where the
office is or in another continent. In all the cases, although technological facilities to be used could be different, the situation is similar because, as long as the staff is away from the home office, contextual constrains become unpredictable."
(Castells, 2004)
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