Sam Citron
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- January 7, 1999, on Communications:
As the only lawyer in America who does not yet
have a cell phone, I was amused on a recent trip
to Asia to learn that nearly all Japanese
teenagers seem to have them. I can't help thinking
that the lower cell phone penetration rate in
America probably has something to do with the
idiotic sender-and-receiver-both-pay system in
America for double-billing phone calls. Surely
high penetration regions like UK, Israel,
Scandanavia, Hong Kong and Japan have the sense to
realize that cell phones are a price elastic
luxury item and only the sender should pay (a
reasonable forward pricing rate not much higher
than a land line). How did the US manage to drop
the ball on such an important issue?
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