the jimmymac attack!

There are organizations that keep track of all kinds of things in the world. So someone somewhere calculates how many cell phones there are in countries around the world. In America there are about 50 cell phones per 100 people. That is quite a lot when you consider that little kids and old people would not have them. But it is nothing compared to Asia. In Taiwan there are about 107 cell phones per 100 people. How is it possible? Again of course five year olds and eighty year olds do not have cell phones in Asia either. So how can there be more cell phone users than there are people? The fact is it is not unusual to see a woman or man with two cell phones. I've seen several young woman with three cell phones. And there's probably some people with four or five or more - who knows. Why? Maybe because one is personal and one is business or often people have phones with two or three different telephone companies. If you call a friend using the same company your charges are much less. So it all seems like madness but it's the way it is. Another factor is that North America has the oldest most widely wired home network in the world. Most everyone has a home phone and many people don't need or want a cell phone. In Asia the home phone system is not as well established and some people don't have home phones and just use cell. I had just a cell phone here for months. In fact I did not get a home phone until I got internet access at home and the company gave me a phone number with the internet service. So if you find people on cell phones are annoying come to Asia for some fun. Out shopping and on the subway I bet 80 to 90% of the people have a cell phone or two or three.
Which reminds me the cell phones work in the subway here too. The world is a changing.