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| Authored by: complex_number on Saturday, August 11 2012 @ 12:24 PM EDT |
you obviously don't travel that much. If you do then you will find that
landlines are getting few and far between. Besides, as you get older it is
harder to remember all those numbers. The phonebook that you carry in your
mobile saves the day.
I'm writing this from my Hotel room in a middle eastern country. I'm doing a job
that involves comissioning a load of kit relating to a new airport. I need to
use a phone to tell the idiots in the Tower that this gate is not available for
general use as well as getting on the phone to various companies telling them to
get off their fat behinds and get their <redacted> heap of useless
<redacted> fixed pronto.
I've made at least 30 calls today so I have a local Sim card naturally.
When I go home and revert to my £10.00 a month non contract plan (300 minutes) I
rarely use more than 50 a month.
Not having a phone however is not a disaster for me. On the last trip, it got
left by accident on an aircraft that subsequently took off for Thailand. I
didn't get it back for 3 days. I just shout a bit louder. :)
I admire PJ if she can live without a phone. Some people are addicted to their
second <redacted>. They have to check it every 2-3 minutes (or worse). I
go meh and have to find the silly thing because I put it down somewhere 3-4 days
before and haven't used it since.
It is a tool and often an essential one for my job. Mine is most certainly not a
status symbol.
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Ubuntu & 'apt-get' are not the answer to Life, The Universe & Everything which
is of course, "42" or is it 1.618?
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, August 13 2012 @ 01:41 PM EDT |
I use a Trac phone that takes pre-paid codes. Once a year I buy a yearly
airtime card that costs $100 ($99.99)and adds 400 minutes to the phone. The
minutes roll over and there are currently over 1600 minutes on the phone. The
phone is in my car and powered down. It holds a charge this way for months.
For me it's the perfect emergency phone and only costs about $7 a month. :)[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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