Last night at dinner, Hope made an observation.  She wondered aloud why she saw so many people in Asia carrying 2 mobile phones with them at one point in time.  This reminded us about an organisation  in India where they are thinking of setting a system (not in place yet as the employees are resisting it) by which different SIM cards must be used for official and personal use - the office obviously pays for official calls only.  So each person would have to carry two SIM cards - and replace them as appropriate depending on whether they are making a personal call or an official call.  Or carry two phones. And each person would have separate mobile phone numbers for personal and official calls. 

Makes no sense to me !

Makes me wonder whether there are any cell phones with two SIM card slots, without the phone having to be turned off each time you want to swap. Any thoughts on this ?

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This is staggering yet not surprising - India's mobile phone users surpass land line base.

"The number of mobile phone subscribers in India last month swept past the country's fixed-line telephone base in a growth trajectory that is second only in speed and magnitude to that of neighbouring China.

According to India's telecommunications authority, the country's mobile telecom base grew by 1.4m in October to reach 44.9m subscribers, compared with 43.9m registered users of land lines in the country.

"This is not just a revolution in terms of growth in the market, it is also a dramatic shift of power to the consumer in India," said Mr Mittal. "In India mobile phones are for ordinary people and fixed-line phones are for the rich. We used to think it was the other way round."

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