This survey was conducted in Ondo state Nigeria among 250 males and females phone users to
examine the rightful ownership and usage of the Global System for Mobile communication (GSM)
with the aim of knowing their experiences and perceived satisfaction from the exchange of the products
to the consumption of services rendered. This study considered the common use to which mobile sets
were put to and hence examined, the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT)
accruing from them. Questionnaire and interview approaches were used to solicit information on issues
like, GSM security and its implications for the Social Well being, Welfare, Life Style and Life
Events. Results showed that positive relationships exist between the SWOT criteria indicating
satisfaction of usage among Ondo state’s indigenes; life styles and life events as well as meeting social
wellbeing and welfare objectives indicative of Millennium Development Goals. Results from the
interview indicate that, the elitists seem to derive pride in the benefits of the ownership and usage.
Majority use the GSM as communication working tool for policing and detection, economic, business,
political, social and educational transactions. Many use them to swindle, impassionate, threaten,
abduct and lie. Some use them to win laurels, and friendship. Some purchased theirs while others
snatched, seized, stole or dispossessed people of its rightful ownership. These were taken as the extent
to which GSM phone ownership and use have contributed to the MDGs in Nigeria.
Recommendations were made for security improvement and cost effectiveness in services and for the
government to put in place policy to make GSM available to the poor.