IF you are under 40, it must be hard to imagine the time before mobile phones. It sounds ridiculous that families once had to wait months, if not years, to get a landline connection for their telephone, which was such a rare commodity that you could “sell” your “number” for 200,000 baht (RM20,870) or more.
Yes, there was a time when a household’s only telephone sat in the middle of the living room and a teenager had to sneak out of his or her bedroom at 3am to talk “secrets”.
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