You can speak to people on a mobile? Who'ld a thunk it?
Is right! Ofcom says Scousers enjoy a natter on the phone compared to southern blerts
Liverpool is the most gobby verbal region in the UK, according to Ofcom – something prime minister Boris Johnson would no doubt have confirmed had he visited the city today.* In the regulator's Mobile Matters report (PDF), which analysed the phone habits of 150,000 people between 1 January and 31 March 2019, Liverpudlians were …
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Thursday 10th October 2019 13:13 GMT JetSetJim
Re: I assume that means most of them are being overcharged
Not forgetting the underlying OS telemetry. iOS seems to run a fair whack of under the hood data, and I'm sure there's at least a dribble of data out from Android. First phone for eldest rugrat had limited data and was always getting eaten up rather rapidly - a little digging found "System services" using it all up, with no hint of how to stop it
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Thursday 10th October 2019 15:40 GMT Warm Braw
Re: I assume that means most of them are being overcharged
I put a second, PAYG, SIM in my (Android) phone for "not spot" coverage, with data turned off on that SIM. Within a couple of days I'd had a message from the network saying that the modest free data allocation (around 50MB) of the data-disabled SIM had been exhausted. Still trying to get to the bottom of that one.
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Thursday 10th October 2019 14:35 GMT Commswonk
I Hope This Isn't True...
previous studies have also showed that younger people find making calls a little daunting, and prefer to use messaging services such as WhatsApp.
...because if it is the implications border on the terrifying.
OK; I have been retired for a few years but looking back I can remember just how productive a proper telephone conversation can be. Work / business 'phone calls obviously have a professional purpose, but that does not prevent the persons involved establishing a good working personal relationship at the same time. (No improper conclusions should be drawn from that.)
Are we raising children in such a way that they will be unable to communicate properly in a work environment?
<shakes head>
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Thursday 10th October 2019 18:40 GMT BrownishMonstr
Re: I Hope This Isn't True...
I personally dislike phone calls. I can get back to messages on my own time, which is unsocially never.
I also find the longer the phone call goes, the ever increasing chance I'll zone out* without realising it and I'll miss the important stuff. If it's longer than 15 seconds then please email me.
*I am a bit of a dick head, or a lot in my honest opinion, so this could explain me zoning out mid conversation. That said, I have zoned out of books, films (the part where M dies in Bond and I only realised after rewatching it), and even real life (only realise when people mention something and even though I was there I couldn't remember it, despite that it would be something I'll remember).
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Thursday 10th October 2019 20:50 GMT heyrick
Re: I Hope This Isn't True...
Upvote because you're not a dick head. I'm not so different.
Thing is, when people commit to sending you a message, they often keep their message short and sweet.
But on the phone. Oh my god. Um err well um well err uh.
I nearly lost a job when I had to admit to a boss that I had no idea what she said in her for minute phone call, instead observing that she ummed over sixty times. That's statistically once every four seconds. I wonder if she knew she sucked on the phone? It's not hard to jot down some notes so the call can be as precise as a typed request.
It um would um certainly um um make um my life um a lot um easier um than um trying to um piece together um fragments um of um a sentence um.
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Friday 11th October 2019 03:40 GMT doublelayer
Re: I Hope This Isn't True...
As a relatively young person (I have no problem making and receiving calls), I think the opinion of those who don't like to make calls is concern that the person they are calling will not appreciate the call because they are busy or unavailable. I'm not saying this makes sense; we all have a vibrate mode on our phones for a reason. But that's the reasoning I've heard from some people and those people tend not to make calls very often.
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Thursday 10th October 2019 19:05 GMT Anonymous Coward
Poor signals and speeds
They use wifi only because the speeds are shit and data throughput diabolical.
Cant OFCOM get it? Oh wait... its Ofcom we are talking about.
NeXt, they will come up with a survey, sayIng the country doesnt need 5G, since kids and 150,000 people only use wifi at home and minimal data. WIll play nicely into TELCOS HANDS TO not INVEST AND IMPROVE.
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Friday 11th October 2019 10:56 GMT James12345
Looks like OFCOM have no idea
I'll admit I'm guessing here, but OFCOM are probably looking purely at voice traffic to establish how long people are using their phone to make "phone calls". All the app based systems that allow someone to use their voice to communicate with another person will be being recorded only as data, not voice.
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