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From: zippy@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Patrick Tufts)
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Subject: Re: Phone Service in the UK Two Decades Ago
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John Slater writes:

[in reply to the assertion that, in the US (but not the UK) you can
order a pizza via cellular from your car and get it just as you arrive
home.]

I don't know what prompts you to make this insular assumption. Of
course we can do this: we have pizza delivery services, and we have
one of the best and most successful cellular setups in the world.

Not to nitpick, but :-) :-)

Few pizza places in England have heard of delivery service.  When I
was at the University of Essex, the local pizza place said `of course,
we deliver' ... to the central loading dock of the school, that is.

Not a one of my flatmates (20 of them, all Brits) had ever heard of
having a pizza delivered.

ObPhone question: Why is it that a UK -> US phone call is much more
expensive than a US -> UK call?


Pat