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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!
 
I believe we have a mobile phone in the UK.
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.
 
And what is the incidence of brain tumours?

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

Or do you all use those magic stickers which block evil cancer rays from your phones?

Not that I know of.
 
I believe we have a mobile phone in the UK.
CFLarsen said:
Just one?

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!
 
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.
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
 
Why is that impressive?

The last thing I want is a cell phone. I value being unreachable.
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.)
 
The last thing I want is a cell phone. I value being unreachable.
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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