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Subject: Re: Susan starts posting

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Rob

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Date Posted: 12:00:51 12/07/12 Fri
In reply to: khms 's message, "Re: Susan starts posting" on 03:03:40 12/07/12 Fri

I suspect that Susan wasn't often in situations where she would need to make a call in Germany that she was away from her friends an/or there wasn't a phone she could use.

If Germany had no contract prepaid cell phones then it might have been advantageous to get one there - and probably a lot easier (and possibly cheaper) than trying to bring a phone from the USA and get service there.

To me that last would almost be the same as bringing hot dogs to eat at a pizza place.

As for the reason she hasn't gotten a cell phone yet ... She's been either to busy or not thinking about it.

Rob
>[cell phone]
>
>She�d never had one, and it would have been useless to
>her in Germany anyway. But that was then. Now that she
>was back in the States things were different.
>
>Given teenage cell phone culture (which I believe was
>already strong around 2004), it would seem to me that
>far from being useless, she'd most likely consider it
>essential.
>
>Of course, to be able to use it on both sides of the
>pond without going broke, she'd need to have plans
>with local providers ... and presumably a phone
>capable of doing both GSM and whatever the US system
>was (I forget and there seems to be no reference from
>the Wikipedia GSM article) or at least both EU and US
>GSM frequency bands.
>
>
>As for uni selection, I could be mistaken, but my
>impression is that unless you're into something a bit
>exotic, or maybe you specifically want a job in
>academia, the exact choice of uni is much less
>important over here in Germany. One aspect of that is
>... let's just say that I'd never heard about diploma
>mills before I got much contact with US people, and it
>took me a while to believe they're real.

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