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I'm from Poland. It's just over the course of years most of the services became messenger contacts, for various reasons, but most common one was the need to reliably exchange pictures



And you do need a reliable modem to reliability exchange pictures.


Yeah, and most of the time I do it on wifi. Still, most of the actual voice GSM part of my phones communication is used by salespeople


Sure but when you're out and about and don't have WiFi you'll be relying on your modem to send/receive pictures and all kinds of data.

Probably not an issue if you're all the time in cities with great coverage but you'll feel it when you go in "the woods" or well shielded buildings or basements.


Yeah, in that case you're right.

Love Austria btw., and appreciate the preciseness of your language. It's been years since I worked with it, but it always felt like a vacation for my brain, while consuming technical content in it


>Love Austria btw., and appreciate the preciseness of your language.

I'm not Austrian, I'm an immigrant here, and it's not "my language" nor anyone else's I presume, it's still just German, albeit with an Arnold Schwarzenegger accent on top.




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