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Everyone in the USA seems to think that the USA is way behind everyone else in mobile usage. When I was there last month, though, it seemed that they have a very high level of mobile usage - for voice, at least. Here in NZ, voice calls are pretty expensive, so the main usage of mobile phones is for text messaging. Just about every high school kid or university student has a phone, but they very rarely use them to call people. It costs me US$0.30 per minute to call a landline or another cellphone on the same network, or US$1 per minute to call another cellphone network -- so I don't do it unless I really have to.

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