80% of the world's population has never heard a...

[GRUNHERZ]

Dialtone of a phone... Can you believe that?

[Capt. Pork]

Originally posted by GRUNHERZ
Dialtone of a phone... Can you believe that?

Damn straight. Can't tell if you're connected or not with my idiotic Sprint Cellphone.

[Nefarious]

Where did you hear that? 80% is a pretty large number of the Worlds Population.

[GRUNHERZ]

Local classical radio station today quoting BBC article...

[Sixpence]

They can have mine, all I get is telemarketers anyway.

[crowMAW]

We need to invade all those countries and bring AT&T into their lives!!  

Oh...but Halliburton must get the contract to lay the phone lines.  

[Nilsen]

they can have some of mine to sixpence

[beet1e]

Not surprising when you consider the demographics of the rest of the world, most of which is NOT like the US/UK/Canada/Europe etc. For example, America has about 5% of the world's population but drives about 40% of the world's vehicles! In China, there is about one car per 300,000 population.

[GRUNHERZ]

I wouldnt find it surprising except for the recent global explosion of cell phones which makes it much easier to install telephone infrastructure in 3rd world nations compared to line based systems.

[Cerceuilvolant]

Originally posted by beet1e
Not surprising when you consider the demographics of the rest of the world, most of which is NOT like the US/UK/Canada/Europe etc. For example, America has about 5% of the world's population but drives about 40% of the world's vehicles! In China, there is about one car per 300,000 population.

Wow, just 3333 cars in China?!

[Batz]

Your math is off...

China population

1,284,303,705 (July 2002 est.)

Try again

[Cerceuilvolant]

Errrrh, wow, just 4281 cars in China?

[Nilsen]

4281,01235 cars

what do i win?

[eskimo2]

I have and use a 1940/50s Bakalite Telephone in my bedroom.  It still works perfectly.

eskimo

[AKIron]

Interesting article on cars in China:

http://www.time.com/time/asia/2003/china_boom/story.html