Re: In other news

On 05.07.2023 14.14, Merlyne wrote:
> BeH <[email protected]> wrote in news:[email protected]:
> 
>> On 02.07.2023 16.29, Merlyne wrote:
>>> BeH <[email protected]> wrote in
>>> news:[email protected]: 
>>>
>>>> On 28.06.2023 13.31, Merlyne wrote:
>>>>> I got a new phone and a better plan.
>>>>> Why are cell plans so much more expensive in my country vs the US?
>>>>
>>>> CAPITALISM! It's always capitalism. We've been over this.
>>> Sure. Are you sure that it's not related to population base?
>> If you pay the same country-wide and you the same coverage in sparsely
>> populated areas (I know you have some of those), then maybe. But most
>> likely capitalism.
>>
> Ugh!
>>>>> I got a new S21 and 20GB of data for $47/month taxes in.
>>>> I pay a base fee of ~$4/month (deducted from consumption) with
>>>> slightly higher per-minute charge and no free data. But then I only
>>>> use data in emergency (which haven't happened yet) and make maybe
>>>> two calls and two texts/month.
>>> I used to have a prepaid cell for like $10 a month back in 2003 when
>>> it was my emergency phone.
>>> Once I started using it all the time, it was more cost-efficient to
>>> have a plan with unlimited talk and text. I would say that I am most
>>> frequently contacted by text than by other modes i.e. voice call or
>>> email. 
>>>> On the other hand I still pay for a landline (IP) even though it
>>>> hasn't made a sound (or call) in several years.
>>>>
>>> I also have a landline. My Dad calls it and a few places where I keep
>>> forgetting to change my contact info to my cell. I think the landline
>>> isn't VOIP it's whatever came before that but after rotary dial
>>> phones. 
>>
>> Analog... (rotary dials relied on counting the impulses - one for each
>> digit passed on return; pushbutton 'dialing' relied on the frequency
>> of the tone correspondig to each digit/button)
>>
>>> They will probably phase it out eventually.
>> Like they did with teevee signals, thus making everyone get new
>> teevees... 
> 
> I thought I got a new tv because the old one stopped working.
That may be, but lots of people got new tvs because their old one
couldn't receive/decode the digital signal.

-- 
BeH

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