Source: PBS.org, MediaShift
Post:"Spain’s National Obsession with Mobiles, Texting"
Written by: Jennifer Woodard Maderazo
Having lived in Madrid in 2001, it was crazy to see how much more advanced they were then with their telecommunications than we are even today in the US : free incoming calls, free texting, recharging minutes in grocery stores. Maderazo writes up a fairly detailed description of the culture of text messaging and personal computing in Spain:
"To say that Spain is crazy for cell phones is an understatement. Approximately 44 million people live in Spain, but in January of this year the number of cell phones in the country reached 50 million. There are more phones than people here. While Americans might also be addicted to the cell, the Spanish relationship with the cell phone has evolved differently from ours for reasons that are clear and others that remain a mystery..." (keep reading)
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StageKid
Post:"Spain’s National Obsession with Mobiles, Texting"
Written by: Jennifer Woodard Maderazo
Having lived in Madrid in 2001, it was crazy to see how much more advanced they were then with their telecommunications than we are even today in the US : free incoming calls, free texting, recharging minutes in grocery stores. Maderazo writes up a fairly detailed description of the culture of text messaging and personal computing in Spain:
"To say that Spain is crazy for cell phones is an understatement. Approximately 44 million people live in Spain, but in January of this year the number of cell phones in the country reached 50 million. There are more phones than people here. While Americans might also be addicted to the cell, the Spanish relationship with the cell phone has evolved differently from ours for reasons that are clear and others that remain a mystery..." (keep reading)
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A frothy Guinness to you for stopping by and another for coming back,
StageKid
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