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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (16727)10/19/1998 6:45:00 PM
From: Drew Williams  Read Replies (2) of 152472
 
Mqurice, I submit the following to support your often made contention that people will give up a lot of things before they will give up their cell phones. This news item about satellite dishes (certainly less necessary to life, etc. than a telephone) is clipped from SKYREPORT.COM

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Dishes Sprout in Landlocked Laos

Fueled by Thai soap operas and cheap dishes, a direct-to-home boom has reportedly swept through this impoverished Southeast Asian nation. Even in the most remote mountain villages, black two-meter dishes have appeared as prices have plumeted to as low as $200 and villagers have become hooked on weekly installments of Thai dramas, slick productions not available from Laos' two state-run television stations. With power sources rare, and $200 beyond the pocketbooks of most villagers, the dishes have become status symbols drawing crowds to the homes of village chiefs and merchants.

While language barriers have made the Thai shows most popular (the Thai and Laotian languages are very similar), MTV is also reportedly a big hit. Vendors report selling an average of five dishes and receiver sets a week, a number which has remained steady even as the Laotian kip has plummeted.
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