This writing is not targeted to any institution or individual but it is my concern over the fast growing market of cellphones in our slowly financially drained Kingdom of Swaziland . This has resulted to the lesser and lesser numbers of people in Swaziland using public pay phones which call ‘coin or call boxes’.
I mean in the urban populace I have noted that out four people fully grown adult are always be in possession ( despite considering if it has call credit or not) and since I finished my high school over a decade ago there is an evident t impact cellphones had on the business which had been solely operated by the Swaziland Posts and Telecommunications company in Swaziland.
This business is the one some indivuduals abused to empower their friends with huge tenders in the supply, maintenance and installation of landline phones. I would like to thank MTN (even though it is enjoying unfair advantange of monopoly in the cellular phone business) for coming up at the time we were complaing of malfunctioning or poorly serviced coin boxes and landlines.
It is after the arrival of MTN that a number of Swazis divorced the hard wired phones and fell in love with their Nokia, Alcatels, Orange , Samsungs which has not only connected them to the world but has brought a lot of domestic wars in the love circles.
I have noted that in a week I hardly see a soul making a call in a coin box due to the the now readily available means of communication and a majority of the communication options available in this world are utilised via the cell phone.
Therefore, in many ways, the decline of landline phones and the rise in cell phone use does not simply mark a shift between one type of phone to another. The decline of the landline is also a reflection of how individuals have changed in our preferred means of communication.
We as a culture have embraced new technologies, alternative ways of contacting each other, and even new ways of being marketed to by companies.
The public has become more open to being contacted on their cell phone by mobile/web marketing companies.
There is evidence that the decline of landline phone usage can also be attributed to the current economy. As an increasing number of people started using cell phones, households continued to pay for landlines because they were used to having them. With the decline of the job market, many households have had to choose between a landline and a cell phone. Because the cell phone can be used almost anywhere, is frequently more expensive than a landline, and cell phones have other features such as internet access, the cell phone becomes the obvious choice. The cellphone innovation has led me to wonder why the Swaziland Posts and Communications does not reduce the coin boxes around the country as to minimise its costs of maintenance on unused gadgets or somebody is blessed with a lifetime money spinning venture on unused gadgets…Then government should intervene
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