Nebine (Nebine@aol.com)
Thu, 1 Jan 1998 20:56:25 EST
>Or are cell phones just
>cheaper
>in England??
I don't know that they were when Press Gang was made, but when I was last
there (in March of 96), they definitely were. I was utterly amazed at the
number of people in London who had them. Everywhere I went, there were
people walking down the street, talking on the ubiquitous cell phones.
I asked my friend in Enfield, with whom I was staying, and he said that
there had been a cell phone price war in Britain, that the companies
were practically giving them away, and that what I was seeing was the
result. He had heard that London had the largest cell phone to
inhabitants ratio of any city in the world. I didn't see anything to make
me doubt that.
I was surprised, I have to admit. I've had several British visitors over
the years, who invaribly make comments to me like "Your refrigerator is
so large," "Your washer and dryer are so large, and I only have a
combined unit," "I can't believe you have three televisions, when you
live alone," "Everything is so inexpensive here," "You Americans are so
______" (fill in blank with spoiled, prosperous, wasteful, etc.) So it
disturbed my world view a bit when I learned that there was an electronic
gadget which was cheaper and more widely owned in Britain than it was in
the States.
-Chris
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