Mobile Phones

[The Balrog]

Originally posted by Apollo
Here's an article you might find interesting. It was just put up today on a news website I have as my browser home.
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Four in 10 Americans used a cellular telephone in 2000.

Along with phones as their newest constant companion, Americans favor dining out for leisure, prefer crossword puzzles to bingo, and are eating more red meat and sugar. Workers are inclined to job-hop after 3 1/2 years, and homeowners have been on a remodeling spree.

These are among the findings tucked away in the Statistical Abstract of the United States for 2001 released Wednesday by the U.S. Census Bureau.

The abstract offers a wide-ranging glimpse of the American lifestyle, with more than 1,400 tables and charts of statistics, based on the latest period available.
But it was the upswing in cell phone use that captured the attention of both census officials and futurists.

Nearly 110 million people in the country used a cell phone in 2000, compared with about 5 million subscribers in 1990. Over the decade, the cell phone has become more affordable, with the average monthly bill decreasing from $81 to $45.

"Another indicator of the spectacular growth of the industry was the jump in its employees from 21,000 to 185,000," said Lars Johanson, technical coordinator of the annual publication.

David Pearce Snyder, lifestyles editor of The Futurist magazine, said that in 10 to 15 years, 80 percent of the population will carry a cell phone, and it will be the only phone they use.

"Some people predict that babies are going to be assigned telephone numbers when they're born," he said, and those numbers will replace the Social Security number as the universal identifier.

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It goes on to talk about other statistics not related to mobile phones.

I don't have my own cell phone, but my parents each have one that I used a lot when I lived at home, and just recently my friend got one that has all calls within the U.S. being local calls, so he uses it a lot to call across the county to me.

i think it's 7 out of 10 or 8 out of 10 danes who use Cell phone.

 

[Simon Darkshade]

I'm not a big fan on how people seem to think that a mobile is a necessary apendage to their anatomy, and spend all the time talking on them, but for me, it is simply a useful tool for business. Whilst everyone else I know who has one has bills of over $100 a month, mine is somewhere down near the $15-20 mark. This includes $15 a month service fee, so you can deduce I do not make virtually any outwards calls, and one is also so charmingly abrupt and averse to speaking on the electric telephone that any incoming conversations are typically brusk and/or monosyllabic.

You never know who is listening in...

P.S: OH YEAH!!!! is back on the smiley list! Joy!

 

[polymath]

I don't have one, don't want one, and will probably be amused when most of the braying hordes develop brain tumours from microwaving their brains.
N IF U TXT LIK4 THI5 U RNT CUL U R N IDIOT!
Sorry, but I'm sick of the sight of them.

 

[willemvanoranje]

Siemens M35i

 

[Juize]

1 ) I DON'T. My sister has, my mother has, everyone in my class has, but I dont have.
2 ) Well, not completely useless...
3 ) I used to have Nokia 6150.
4 ) Lower grades (here people aged 7-13) tend to be full of idiots who think
that theyre wool when theyre just playing those unique ringtones.
My god, even some idiots in my class (14-15 years) seem to like that.
Also it's *£$€ amazing how these 9-year old kids spend HUGE amounts in just
ordering unique ringtones, unique logos, not talking about the chat-programs.
And all by theyre parents money. I wish MY mother would have a good job.
I would save all.


Nokia can propably drop their costs real soon, they blackmailed the goverment to drop off the taxes.
Goverment says it's outrageous, but when I don't think they say no, it would be quite suicidical.

(EDIT: ) Btw, Nokia wasn't timber company, it produces also rubber stuff, such as boots.

 

[Suppersalmon]

I have a nokia 3310

:die!:

 

[The Balrog]

Let's all (just to brag) post picture s of our Cell phones. !!!

 

[Dell19]

Originally posted by Juize
that theyre wool when theyre just playing those unique ringtones.

That must be very worrying if your classmates think they are wool. Do they try to cling on sheep or do they knit themselves?

 

[The Balrog]

LOL, nice one dell19.

 

[Becka]

Originally posted by Dell19


That must be very worrying if your classmates think they are wool. Do they try to cling on sheep or do they knit themselves?

Heh heh, "cling to sheep".

I have a cell phone. It's a...well, I don't know. Samsung I think. I hardly ever use it unless I'm going out with friends.

 

[willemvanoranje]

Originally posted by Dell19


That must be very worrying if your classmates think they are wool. Do they try to cling on sheep or do they knit themselves?

I guess kinda weird people live up there..........might be better to kick out any future holiday ideas concerning that country......