Comments on: mobile only homes http://www.rajajasti.com/2009/05/11/mobile-only-homes/ Musings on Technology, Media and Business Thu, 18 Mar 2010 03:11:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Charles F Moreira http://www.rajajasti.com/2009/05/11/mobile-only-homes/comment-page-1/#comment-4142 Charles F Moreira Tue, 12 May 2009 15:51:43 +0000 http://www.rajajasti.com/?p=2244#comment-4142 I'm glad to see the Americans are at last catching up with rest of the world. I'm in Malaysia and I still have a landline which I have hardly used since I got my mobile phone in 1996. Today I have six registered postpaid cellular lines plus a company cellular number (which makes seven), three prepaid numbers (which I don't regularly top up), five cellphones, two wireless cellular data modems plus two desktop wireless broadband modems. I have no wife or kids but let my aunt use one of my six postpaid numbers. Now that's a guy who about 15 years ago thought of cellphones as a yuppie toy but it's interesting how even the people with the lowest income use cellphones. Hmmm! Perhaps one day, the telcos will figure out how to make having a landline a premium item for the wealthy -- just like analogue mechanical watches are premium items compared to cheap digitals. I’m glad to see the Americans are at last catching up with rest of the world.

I’m in Malaysia and I still have a landline which I have hardly used since I got my mobile phone in 1996.

Today I have six registered postpaid cellular lines plus a company cellular number (which makes seven), three prepaid numbers (which I don’t regularly top up), five cellphones, two wireless cellular data modems plus two desktop wireless broadband modems.

I have no wife or kids but let my aunt use one of my six postpaid numbers.

Now that’s a guy who about 15 years ago thought of cellphones as a yuppie toy but it’s interesting how even the people with the lowest income use cellphones.

Hmmm! Perhaps one day, the telcos will figure out how to make having a landline a premium item for the wealthy — just like analogue mechanical watches are premium items compared to cheap digitals.

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