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From: dave@westmark.westmark.com (Dave Levenson)
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Subject: Re: Cellular Phones of the Future
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Date: 20 Nov 90 03:47:08 GMT
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In article <14765@accuvax.nwu.edu>, jwilde@barney.bgsu.edu (jane
wilde) writes:

> maybe it won't be long before everyone has a "pocket phone".  And if
> that's the case, won't this be a major distraction to others.  How

If everyone has one, who are the 'others'?  Why do you think people
will talk on the phone in a theatre if they don't talk to each other
in the theatre?

What you'll need is either a pocket answering machine, or a voicemail
system integrated with the service provided to the pocket-phone users.

When the current generation of cellular telephones arrived on the
market, they were priced at $2,500 - $3,500.  Now they're down to
about $100 if you shop around a bit.  Even at the higher prices of
five or six years ago, there was no lack of buyers for them.  It was
the sales volume those buyers generated that brought the cost down for
the rest of us.  Why don't you think the same thing will happen with
the next generation?


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