"William Black" wrote in message
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> "Roland Perry" wrote in message
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>> Even when I'm abroad on a leisure trip, I still sometimes need a phone
>> (for example to ask the friends to pick me up from the mall). But I
>> suppose one can make do. But not on a business trip.
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> Why not?
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> People did for many many years.
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> Mobile phones have only been about for a couple of decades.
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> I spent some time in India last year with a guy with a Blackberry who just
> kept getting emails and phone calls and HAD to answer them.
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> Nightmare...
Ha. Meeting an acquaintance from Delhi on Wednesday night was an exercise in
(a) 10 minutes of waiting inside the pub while he finished a phone call
(b) 40 minutes of him making a couple of phone calls while in the pub
(c) 10 minutes of him trying to send some file via his Blackberry-like
appurtenance
(d) announcing he had to leave
If I owned a restaurant - god help the few patrons - I'd install an
electronic jammer.
Cheers,
George W Russell
Bangalore
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