In the last YEAR AND A HALF, at most 10-15 different acquaintances have called my mobile, and about the same number of strangers (including “buy insurance” and “from the clinic”). And not a single call yet related to work 🙂 If you subtract family calls, the phone functions as a player+browser+social networks+camera almost without exception. In fact, 150 bucks a month go to family communication + mobile internet + very occasional, extremely rare phone calls to various services as needed.
Internet is heavily used. This month 6 GB of data was used (unlimited). Traffic 42% goes to video. (On Android, at least you can set YouTube quality to minimum, but not on iPhone!)
SMS are free. 117 SMS this month. 77 calls totaling 159 minutes of conversations, of which about 20 are outside the family group of numbers. Usually no more than 10, it’s just that August was particularly active. All calls are also unlimited.
Compared to how I used my phone in Moscow, I barely use it here at all. I could have just kept the internet and made calls via VOIP. But that’s just me.
But really, when you think about it. It’s not even a phone anymore. It’s a microcomputer, which among other things, can still make and receive calls through an old-school channel. The word ‘phone’ is still hanging on, but probably not for long.
Hi, I'm Rauf Aliev. 