Cell phones more important than sex!

[Mrs. Tuberski]

Originally posted by Alexander's Horse have my admin aide buzz be 10 minutes into any rep meeting... If the person is worth listening too, I ignore it and tell them how important this meeting is... and if they are sucking wind and are boring... I answer, tell them it's an emergency, and to wrap up their sales pitch in 1 minute





So that's why you never answer my calls

hint hint

[Alexander's Horse]

and here was I think he was having sex all the time

[Mrs. Tuberski]

Originally posted by Alexander's Horse
and here was I think he was having sex all the time

For real dude? who can have sex all the time?
**** he needs to go to work once in awhile. But answer cell phone during the deed no way!!! I say leave a message. Thats what caller id is for

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Drogue
Ouch, that's not dirt cheap, that's expensive My plan is £15 per month for 500 anytime, any network minutes and 100 free texts. SMS here cost around 10p, and airtime is usuallynquite dear after your free minutes.

That's local dollars 1 UKP = 14.78 HKD.

So $90 is, hm, around 6.1 pounds.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Starchild
Standard rule of thumb is that in terms of mobile take up and, more importantly, the cultural aspect of mobile phones, America is 2-3 years behind Europe/Asia. That's admitted even by the American business execs.

Thanks but we invented the mobile phone and were the first to have it avialable. What you mean is that Europe mandated one standard while the US government didn't get involved with standards so we have a standards war while you guys didn't. I'm fine with that because I pay $49.95 for 3000 minute per month with free unlimited night and weekend minutes while you guys pay more for arounf 500-1000 minutes. Gee, Americans don't use texting so much so we're "behind Europe". Maybe it's just that voice is so cheap we don't need to play kiddy games like texting!

[Drogue]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
That's local dollars 1 UKP = 14.78 HKD.

So $90 is, hm, around 6.1 pounds.

Ahhhh, I thought you meant USD. So yeh, pretty cheap then.

[Drake Tungsten]

No, America is behind Europe and Asia. It's obvious...

[Drogue]

Originally posted by Oerdin
Thanks but we invented the mobile phone and were the first to have it avialable. What you mean is that Europe mandated one standard while the US government didn't get involved with standards so we have a standards war while you guys didn't. I'm fine with that because I pay $49.95 for 3000 minute per month with free unlimited night and weekend minutes while you guys pay more for arounf 500-1000 minutes. Gee, Americans don't use texting so much so we're "behind Europe". Maybe it's just that voice is so cheap we don't need to play kiddy games like texting!

I think you need to check UK prices I pay £15 (~$25) for 500 anytime, cross network minutes and 100 free texts. $50 for 3000 isn't that unusual here.

And yeh, in mobile take up, it's reported the US figures are 2 years behind Europe. Saying because it was invented there it's ahead there is silly. It's like saying England are better than Brazil at football because we invented it. We're not. Neither is the US. Japan is clearly well ahead of everyone, and in take up at least, Europe leads the US significantly

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Drogue
Japan is clearly well ahead of everyone, and in take up at least, Europe leads the US significantly

Here (Hong Kong) has a huge take up as well. I have seen little kids with mobiles, and some people have two. Among all the people I know, only two don't have mobiles.

[MikeH]

UK has 50 million mobiles (60 million pop'n), I think the European average is over 70%, expected to top 83% by 2007

I'm struggling to find modern figures this suggests that the US only has 166 million mobile subscribers, which is only about 56%.

http://www.clickz.com/stats/sectors/wireless/article.php/3377511

[Starchild]

Originally posted by Oerdin
Gee, Americans don't use texting so much so we're "behind Europe". Maybe it's just that voice is so cheap we don't need to play kiddy games like texting!

Honey you're cute. Wrong but cute. Texting is not viewed as a kiddie medium here. Texting is viewed as a flexible way of sending short bursts of information. I want to arrange a night out at the pub? I send one text to multiple people instead of making a lot of phone calls. I watch the news and they tell you to text in a vote for one of their polls. BBC documentaries invite you to text in your opinions for instant feedback. I go to music festivals and I just text one number and they'll send me free updates for the course of the event on band line ups, alterations, rumours, and the best acts to see straight to my phone's inbox. I read a magazine and the adverts will invite me to text them for more information. They had a political debate with the Prime Minister where people could text in questions and get back answers. My friends go on holiday, they'll photo-text me pictures. Hell, some companies will photo-text porn direct to your phone. I text, my friends text, my parents text, my grandparents text. Britain and Japan a world leaders in the cultural aspects of text messaging and how its used.

I lived in North America for a big chunk of my life and I still go back to visit family. You are easily 2 years behind Europe in mobile phone penetration and usage. I mean, I read mobile phone magazines for fun and half the models released these days never get released in the USA. The Europe-Asia GSM market is massively larger and easier to distribute in than the American one.

[MikeH]

Great post. I'll add to that the ability to text cheaply when abroad, much cheaper than making international calls. Even when I'm in the UK I send/recieve a handful of international texts - not to the US though, that seems to be a real problem. A lot of networks in the US don't seem to allow international texting.

The ability to send and receive texts is miles more useful than having a phone that you can carry with you.

2.4 billion texts were sent in the UK in december 2004. That's 40 per resident. I probably send about 150 a month on average, 5 a day.

[Starchild]

I easily send 5-10 a day. Quite a few during lectures when using a phone is obviously impossible.

[Drake Tungsten]

I easily send 5-10 a day.

That's child's play. I'll send that many in an hour on a good day...

[MikeH]

Japan is way ahead of Europe.