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Comment Re:Correlation (Score 1) 570

by hackiavelli on Sunday December 28, 2008 @03:10PM (#26251037) Attached to: What Carriers Don't Want You To Know About Texting

Calling represents a loss of time

I find the exact opposite: written communication tends to be much slower. At my work I've spent days shooting emails back and forth with customers when a simple three minute call would have accomplished the same thing. And unless you can text more than 150 words per minute, it's going to be faster to call even with the excruciating agony of having to wait for the phone to ring a couple times.

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