This is the latest great innovation. It may mean the end of landlines altogether in some areas. It is no more expensive than some of the normal deals – like BT, Virgin or cable TV deals.
Except when it comes to using it abroad. And unlike what happened with the phones, people are not running up bills of a few hundred pounds. They are running up bills of a few thousand pounds. Double figure thousands, almost.
This was featured on Watchdog last night, and my partner knows of someone who was still downloading a movie whilst they travelled abroad.
People cannot pay those amounts of money. What will happen if they don’t?
At least the European Commission has said it will step in if the phone companies themselves don’t do something about it.
I would say that mobile phones are still generally too expensive. Odd that we bother at all now that Skype is so easily available. I think we are not living up to the true potential of the technology. Technology is bringing us closer to being a One World – but not fast enough.
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