[MLB-WIRELESS] OT but interesting: Rural cost analysis

[Alfred Shippen]

I will be in Finland in two weeks time. Last time I was there I noticed the
dominance of mobiles, and SMS. I went to a night club in Helsinki, and
people where SMS'ing to each other in the next booth! (using Nokia
communicators of course...)



> Finland, the home of Nokia and everyone has a mobile phone but no one
would
> lend you one? How did their switchboard work? A few chicks with many
mobiles
> and headsets? ;)
>
> Regards,
> g at z.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-melbwireless at wireless.org.au
> [mailto:owner-melbwireless at wireless.org.au]On Behalf Of John Dalton
> Sent: Monday, 21 July 2003 4:48 PM
> To: Clae
> Cc: melbwireless at wireless.org.au
> Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] OT but interesting: Rural cost analysis
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> In Finland, land lines are the exception rather than the rule,
> for everybody. It's a real bugger for a visitor that doesn't
> have a mobile phone.  A few years ago I was visiting a company with a
> workforce of 500 and I couldn't make or receive any phone calls.
> They had only two land lines in the building, both behind
> locked doors.
>
> John
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