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Although it’s also the case that people like me owned cell phones for quite a while but didn’t use them to any material degree especially for personal uses for

• raw_anon_1111 7mo ago
  Per minute costs were expensive, roaming from your local city took a lot of work, they were bulky bag phones and you still had to pay separate long distance charges, I’m not surprised. Sprint changed that in the late 90s where all calls were 10 cents a minute anywhere you were calling from and too and you stayed on their network.
  • ghaff 7mo ago
    Exactly. I eventually bought one and then an other and chose a calling area that was most likely to correspond with people I might communicate with on trips and the like but it was backup/emergency use. Not something you used personally day to day or even maybe week to week.