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All Danes got a cell phone now...

Well, what do you guys have? Ten yards of landline cable in your entire country?
 
We are pretty well covered with landline cables too - which is the reason for the very high proportion of fast internet access that we also enjoy.

I am one of those with two cell phones: my private phone, and the one for my work. My wife has cell phone too, and our conventional phone is a wireless one.

In fact, that is the enormous advantage to the cell phone companies: The old landline connections could (in general) only be sold once for an entire family. You sell cell phones to each member of the family: a potential for tripling or quadrupling the number of subscriptions! And apparently, that potential has been reached!

Strangely, the cell phone companies see a bright future. I would expect their sales to drop sharply! There must be a limit to how many people you can sell two or more cell phone subscriptions! (But apparently there is no limit to how much you can make people use the phones!
 
Darat said:
I believe we have a mobile phone in the UK.
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Does it still cost about £45 to make a phone call there? Back in the 80s, a friend of mine met a girl from Manchester while on a business trip. She eventually moved to the U.S. and they married, but the first year of their "relationship" consisted of a transatlantic courtship via telephone! I don't know which direction most of the calls went, but after about a year, they accumulated a bill of $10,000. That's right, ten thousand dollars.
 
brodski said:
And what is the incidence of brain tumours?
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10 Most frequent forms of cancer, male, 2001:

Ordinary skin cancer: 3,067
Lung: 2,068
Prostate: 1.997
Intestine: 1.873
Bladder: 1.168
Birthmark: 441
Brain/nervous system: 430
Leukemia: 413
Kidney: 423
Lymphatic, non-Hodgkin: 382


10 Most frequent forms of cancer, female, 2001:

Breast: 4.006
Ordinary skin cancer: 3.250
Intestine: 1.753
Lung: 1.585
Uterus: 663
Ovary: 610
Birthmark: 585
Brain/nervous system: 530
Bladder: 430
Pancreatic: 424

Source

brodski said:
Or do you all use those magic stickers which block evil cancer rays from your phones?
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Not that I know of.
 
Darat said:
I believe we have a mobile phone in the UK.
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CFLarsen said:
Just one?
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I think I saw it once! I took some video footage of it but it was a bit dark and it came out all blurry. To stay the calls of "Evidence!" from Claus I can post some stills of it though.

Here's the first picture. It was towards the end of a long day hiking when I heard a distinctive sound - it was quite high pitched and a bit like "Bing Bing a bing a bing a bing bing brrrrrrrr". Some sort of mating cry perhaps? I looked in the general direction and caught a glimpse:

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I used some special photo processing to enhance the important part of the image. I've added an arrow and some highlighting to make the critical bit easier to see:

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Incontrovertible, I think you'll agree. Put that in your pipe and smoke it, Danes!
 
Psi Baba said:
Does it still cost about £45 to make a phone call there? Back in the 80s, a friend of mine met a girl from Manchester while on a business trip. She eventually moved to the U.S. and they married, but the first year of their "relationship" consisted of a transatlantic courtship via telephone! I don't know which direction most of the calls went, but after about a year, they accumulated a bill of $10,000. That's right, ten thousand dollars.
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If you talk for long enough, any call can cost you £45! But the days of expensive transatlantic calls are over. If you call from a landline, and you do not use the Danish Telecom as your carrier, you can call the U.S. for much the same price that people readily pay for calls within Denmark with a cell phone.

Many calls withing Europe will actually be more expensive, but still payable. Only Russia and some more unusual or backward countries will still be expensive.
 
The queen has a mobile phone, which she uses productively to check horse racing results, apparently. .guardian.co.uk/netnotes/article/0,6729,558000,00.html

RANT!
Still, at least noone else will have to hear her shout "One is on one's train", as she has a full 4 carriages to herself. And, according ot the royal website, is used "at times when the weather is too bad to fly." I wish I could persuade the government that my job was as important as to require my own personal train for when the weather was too bad. Opening buildings sure is important
.royal.gov.uk/output/Page407.asp
 
Complexity said:
Why is that impressive?

The last thing I want is a cell phone. I value being unreachable.
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It's a love/hate thingy...

The last number I heard for Norway was 105 active mobile phones for every 100 Norwegian citizen. I suspect about 10 countries top even that. (Based on extrapolation from this old Finnish stastistic.)
 
Complexity said:
The last thing I want is a cell phone. I value being unreachable.
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You can be unreachable with a cell phone: just set it to soundless or send all messages to the voice recorder! The important thing is that you yourself can always reach out to others!
 
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