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Re: Is email old hat now?

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news13 <newsthirteenspam-spam@woa.com.au> wrote
> Jeßus wrote

>> Email from some young bloke:

>> I've noticed this more and more lately with younger people.

> It is just their current fad.

Its nothing like a fad. It can make a lot of sense to have an unlimited
mobile plan for say $50 a month instead of having a landline at all.

And once you have one, it can make a lot of
sense to use it for almost all communication.

> Email was the original internet comms method

And then the world moved on with mobiles.

> and its under widespread and growing use/provision.

Mobile is growing a hell of a lot faster now with the unlimited plans.

> If your target market is a certain group, then
> you probably need to cater for their fads,

Taint a fad. A surprising number of the middle aged and
older have given up on their landlines completely now.

Main downside is if you don’t have an unlimited
plan, it costs a hell of a lot to be left hanging on
the line waiting for some arsehole to pick up the
l3xx number with a human to talk to.

> otherwise naah.

Certainly there are quite few who don’t have
a mobile, but even more that done have an
email address at all, particularly with kids.

Although plenty of those do have a facebook account
and don’t realise that that comes with an email address.

> We're so retrograde that we don't have a mobile phone.

Yep, real dinosaurs now.

> The one we do carry is only turned on in an emergency and 9/10
> times we need to drop a bit of credit on it to actually make a call.

You should get a clue and put an amaysim PAYG sim in it.
No need for credit, you just pay for the calls you make. 

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  Re: Is email old hat now? news13 <newsthirteenspam-spam@woa.com.au> - 2015-12-05 01:17 +0000
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