OT: Hi Jerome,
Following Brian's Post about James Morgan, I happened to read your Post stating the Philippines, among other areas in the world, have No Cell phone network: —-
You said: —- “Heck a good part of the world does not have a cell phone network. Try Africa, rural Russia, China, India, South America The Philippines, Indonesia, large parts of the Middle East and so forth.”
As far as the Philippines (a country composed of more than 7,000 islands) is concerned, communications are done more frequently through the use of Cell phones. Even the leader of a Communist faction using Switzerland as a sanctuary directs insurgency operations in the Philippines, somebody told me, using a Cell phone. One time, my mother who used to live with me here in the US failed to contact me by phone from the Philippines. The wife of my cousin who was visiting my mother at that time, promptly called by Cell phone, her husband in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. My cousin in Dubai, in turn was able to contact me and relayed the message of my mother. He said he was using his second cell phone.
Yes, Filipinos have a strong fascination for Cell Phones, whether one is a Filipino working in one of more than 174 countries around the world or a college student using the Text Messaging feature of the Cell phone while waiting for a bus ride home. If a neighbor gets one, one does everything even to the extent of skipping lunch just to save money in order to buy a Cell phone.
This is only a Joke I heard but maybe partly true: —- Filipinos, whether they are unskilled, skilled or professionals are busy leaving the Philippines to work abroad (at the rate of 2,746 persons a day or more than a million a year as temporary or contract workers) so that they can buy Cell phones for their children who wanted to keep up with what is fashionable. |
