Vimpelcom! You sound like you've been there...
(Of course, no good Moscow guy would be without a cellphone for every finger. You've got two? Well, *I've* got fourteen!)
My favorite snapshot is from a dinner in Almaty. We were eating shashlik at a great outdoor restaurant under the TV tower, overlooking the city at night. My friend (who used to be dpty min of communications) took out his phone to call his daughter at her school in North Carolina. Halfway through dialing, his *other* pocket rang. It was Austrailia. The snapshot is of him with a phone against each ear.
A couple of years ago, everyone would go to the dacha for the weekend. No phones, no way. But now... everyone still goes to the dacha, of course, but an awful lot of dacha energy is put to taking care of business --- a first!
Cellphones seem to be used without regard to the price per call, at least compared to typical cellular usage profiles here in the States. To those who've got 'e, the cell phone is the *primary* phone, and I don't think it would be too far off to say people who have them make no distinction at all between calling from the office, home or in the car.
Of course, the quality of service improvements that come from the digital switches that come with the cellphones makes alot of this understandable --- support Gilder's Negroponte Switch thesis: "One day everything that is now wired will be wireless, everything today wireless will be wired." :-)
Jochen, could you post a couple of words/opinions/experiences about ADRs.... even things like what are the premiums (?), how often are quotes updated (daily)? Wanna learn about this stuff.
<GO LETRX!>
bye,
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