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Re: Young Cell Users Rack Up Debt, One Dime Message at a Time

Alan Burkitt-Gray (ABurkitt@EUROMONEYPLC.COM)
Thu, 20 Jan 2005 16:23:51 -0000

Koos van den Hout wrote:

> It is totally accepted to give a mobile number. I had to fill in a
> number of forms recently with my 'home / evening' and 'work / daytime'
> number. I never give my real at-work number, I give the mobile
> number. Nobody ever complains about it.

Precisely. Across most of the world mobile numbers are the standard
way of talking to people. My personal mobile number is the one my
friends and family use to contact me. It's the number I give to
people. Even my 77-year-old mother is more likely to use my mobile
number than my home number. And I will normally contact a friend or a
colleague -- out of work hours -- on their mobile number before trying
their home number. I want to talk to that individual, not the whole
household. And why should I have to think where someone might be
before phoning them?

It's an interesting difference in attitude. It's quite common for
someone to make a call from their mobile from home when by walking a
few feet they could make the same call for far less money. But to do
that they have to scroll through the mobile's address book to pick out
the number and then key it into the home phone. If you end up with
voicemail, your mobile number is the one you want the other person to
have, not your home number, so they can get back to you. It's just a
lot more convenient and more personal to use the mobile. And the cost
is really not that significant an issue.


Alan B-G
Alan Burkitt-Gray, Editor, Global Telecoms Business
<http://www.globaltelecomsbusiness.com/>
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