> No Facebook or email. Long distance calling was expensive... Sundays were the days to call family and friends, because rates were cheaper.
I remember as a kid being told by my father to go play somewhere else, because I was bothering my mother who was on the phone long distance.
Even when I went to college in 1999, I remember it being an issue since not everyone's cell plan featured long distance included, but everyone came with a cell phone that had a number local to their hometown. People would end up racking up long distance charges on their cell phones just to call a friend in the next building over.
Thought: mobile data charges are the next generation's "long distance" (or are at least headed that way).
Yes, I'm currently paying $15/Megabyte on my iPhone. Nobody in Vancouver (Virgin, Rogers, Bell, Telus) is willing to sell me a "Pay-as-you-go MiFi) for a reasonable rate (< $200) - so I ended up buying a rogers Rocket-Stick for $150 and putting data on it, one day at a time for $15 @ 1 Gigabyte/day (or $5 for 50 megabytes/day - how's that for a curve), connecting to it from my MacBook Air for all my data needs.
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> No Facebook or email. Long distance calling was expensive... Sundays were the days to call family and friends, because rates were cheaper.
I remember as a kid being told by my father to go play somewhere else, because I was bothering my mother who was on the phone long distance.
Even when I went to college in 1999, I remember it being an issue since not everyone's cell plan featured long distance included, but everyone came with a cell phone that had a number local to their hometown. People would end up racking up long distance charges on their cell phones just to call a friend in the next building over.
Thought: mobile data charges are the next generation's "long distance" (or are at least headed that way).
Yes, I'm currently paying $15/Megabyte on my iPhone. Nobody in Vancouver (Virgin, Rogers, Bell, Telus) is willing to sell me a "Pay-as-you-go MiFi) for a reasonable rate (< $200) - so I ended up buying a rogers Rocket-Stick for $150 and putting data on it, one day at a time for $15 @ 1 Gigabyte/day (or $5 for 50 megabytes/day - how's that for a curve), connecting to it from my MacBook Air for all my data needs.