I was going through my monthly telco bill for mobile phone, home phone and home broadband usage. Gone are the days where lifestyle were so simple and easy going. I grew up where is a telephone at home. Those days either one of the family at home will utilize the phone for hours. Then in my high school days, I started to have 33.6 or 56K dialup Modem. US Robotics Modem is a popular and most robust equipment then. Everyone hope to have one at home to have the 'fastest' connection.
As I was looking at my telco's bill, the total cost is not cheap. It is like a person's pay for 1-day in a developed nation or a week's or a month's pay in an undeveloped nation. Nowadays we need data plan to goes with smart phone. So we can get 'smarter'. It add on cost more and more to our bills. The place I live in is getting more competitive for jobs. People from all over the world comes here. We are a globalized nation. People are free to move around. As I grow older and older, and one day if lost a job, I doubt I can sustain with all these high costs. I probably will switch to a prepaid card with no data plan and that would already be a luxury. I am paying two mobile phones, one myself and another for my wife. I doubt if she knows it is not cheap to be on data plan. If I am jobless, I will just go with the basic. Probably my next plan, would be carry a portable modem around and have minimum spending.
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