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One example. We have this toll free line-- 1922.This is a landline, toll free number, very simple technology.But it's very powerful.
Yeah. I mean, I remember I put up a flyer in the music department, an.You guys called my landline, which is really dating myself, here.But that was like the last three months that I had a landline.
That's one of the reasons you sometimes see people going free who may have done terrible things but becauseWe had landline phones and wire tap regulations, cell phones, cordless phones, and now electronic communications,
Dump all your mobiles right now.Let's go back to the landline, because we've been doing that for the longest time.Right? That's like saying, we as a human race, we've been using the-- we've been driving gasoline automobiles for centuries.
And so if you look at a phone like a product, we've had remarkable innovation.We've gone from this rotary dial landline phones to the iPhone X or something like that.And the reason is because there are market incentives to respond to the consumer.
and you don't want to have the kind of collateral damage.realizing that people are moving from regular landline phones, that you could take two little alligator clips to and listen to what they're talking about if you
talk about it's right down the street he says the same consumers are saving their money playing free online gamescancelling cable watching free video killing their landlines in favor ofSkype everything is free and 100% off of course that is his View on the
So we might easily be led into believing that here is a country that changes rapidly, that quickly adapts new things.We've gone from an era where having a landline was a privilege to an era where people have two cell connections, three cell connections, right?But do we really change that fast?
And then we started to put together all these true stories from our lives that made each other laugh.It's like the guy is-- he is-- The greatest landline phone ever.
that Sunday hundreds of people across the state had already used the kiosks near them to pay their bills. I saw one guy paying three different bills: so a power bill, a mobilebill, and a landline bill, I think it was, in minutes. And you can't do that. You can't even do that in Britain. You can't go to one place and pay all your bills in one place.So it is quite incredible what they've managed to achieve.
for the first time in 30 years they still don't haveregular electricity they still don't have a landline phone but they all havemobiles and uganda is completely is actually more comprehensively
In India, a very small slice of Indians who are rich, privileged usually urban, often male, had access to those things.Only 2% of Indians had access to telephone landlines in the year 2000.A similar percentage of Indians had access to PCs.
Some of these are organic.More people have Amazon Prime memberships than they have landlines in America.
To date myself a little bit, I applied with paper cover letters, which I hand-delivered to offices all over New York.And I followed up with phone calls from landlines.And that's really when I set out on my career path here in the city.
You guys called my landline, which is really dating myself, here.But that was like the last three months that I had a landline.And I just happened to be around when you guys called.
So this is where I come in, actually, in our team in India, where we do it.But yes, if they only stick to landline numbers, they are going to miss out the younger group completely.
But I'm even more old fashioned in that I have a landline in my house.
But that's almost like saying-- let put it this way.That's almost like saying we as a human race, we've been using the landline telephone for centuries.Why don't we stick with it?
And then we started to put together all these true stories from our lives that made each other laugh.And then when his phone dies, he has to figure out how to use a landline phone.
The puzzle-- I think it was last week someone, their landline and their cell phone had the exact same digits, just an anagram of the digits.
Maybe after 100 tries, I would get through to some landline that started with 860, whatever it was in those days.
certainly in most parts of the world in the year 2000 most people didn't think cell phones would replace landlines and
and I don't use it lightly, is to contrast it with the way in which the West has-- people in the West have discovered the internet.So for most of you in this room, my assumption would be that sometime in the late 1990s, you had a PC and a telephone landline,and then you got a dial-up internet connection, and then evolved from there to DSL, then cable, broadband, and then you got your routers, you had Wi-Fi.
But I wrote most of it at a rented one-room cabin in northwest Massachusetts that had no internet, no landline,
The challenging thing for me is, the best way to contact a lot of these local congressmen and even at the senator level was calling a landline phone,
that other countries are-- I mean, look how so many developing countries, they don't even have to put in the whole landline technology for
are very young people because they're, they're the first ones who kind of, you know, they don't have to go from a landline to a cell phone. They just go straight to a cell phone
Stream it through the Mac, through my TV. Just like when people gave up their landline telephones and just went to wireless. You're seeing that more and more.
Sure. You know, the telephony in India has mostly been a private sector story.So the public sector story was what you were describing of the '60s, '70s, early '80s of the state trying to get basic telephone landlines to people.And that was something that the state largely failed at.
So we work in countries where, basically, there are no landlines.
And we think Africa can leapfrog the grid just like it did with the cell phones leapfrogging, landlines.
They're communicating, and it's one of these transitions that has gone from, before there was landlines, getting landlines up there would have been incredibly difficult.
You would call out and, of course, most people in South Africa did not have landlines, not just the black people.
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