Cumbria sceptical of switch to digital
I must admit that two years ago I was amongst the refuseniks. Now I have the fervour of the new convert.
the switch off of analogue mobile phone signals passed with barely a murmur, but, to be honest, that affected early-ish adopters. I've had a mobile phone for ten years. Not the same phone, obviously. My first one was a brick. The battery life had a standby time of ten hours, so you always had to carry a spare battery, and woe-betide you if you left it on overnight. You could store ten numbers in the memory, but you couldn't give them a name. I don't think you could txt from it. I had it for three years, and it was pretty much obsolete halfway through that time. Mind you, I've had the same one now for over two years - must upgrade.
I've basically had the same number since 1995, too, although with the Big Number, the dialling code changed from 0374 to 07774, although, apparently, you're supposed to say 0777 4xx xxxx. Mind you, most people don't know that the dialling code for London is 020.
A couple of weeks back, I got an email from a friend who had lost his phone, and hence people's numbers, and asked that we sent him our numbers.
Those of you who are concerned about such things will be relieved to know
that I was due years of upgrades, so my mobile phone number remains the same, and I also receive a brand spanking new phone with a full video-editing suite, the complete symphonic works of Schubert, Mahler, and Prokofiev as ringtones, a miniture built-in sauna and health farm, and an interplanetary probe capable of detecting signs of life at a distance of 8.6 parsecs. I am told I can also use it to "make and receive telephone calls", but I haven't worked out how to use that advanced function yet.
