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wlcnyc: I guess there are more telephone systems on the go now in different parts of North America than you can shake a stick at. I know in my neck of the woods here in Canada local calls are free or if we are paying, it's hidden and insignificant. I was in the U.K. a few years ago and that was one thing I noticed - they had to pay dearly for local telephone calls plus the price of petrol was at least 4 or 5 times that of NY City, I would say. Thus, most cars are of the smaller variety. Another big thing I remember about the U.K. was a great percentage of their food was held in Modified Atmospheric Packaging (MAP), (Nitrogen, carbon dioxide and oxygen) thus an extended 2 or 3 week fresh chilled shelf life. Whereas, in North America, our fresh chilled food has a very limited fresh, chilled shelf life and often loaded with chemicals for preservation purposes. When I asked why "MAP", on the go in the U.K. for at least 10 years, wasn't widely used in the United States and Canada, I was told North Americans weren't sophisticated enough as consumers to handle such a temperature sensitive product in a MAP pack. Based on that, we may be a couple of years ahead of the U.K. now in the Internet, but don't be surprised if they catch up quickly and surpass us. |
