Some phone facts
Today our blog is a light hearted one created and inspired by the facts from today’s Sunday Indie magazine.
Here are some facts about telephones that you don’t need to know but it might make you smile.
In the UK there are over 33 million land lines in current use.
999 was interoduced as the emergency serivces number as far back as 1937. At the time the Times of London wrote: Being one third as big again as the number of the beast, it has sinister significance’.
The easiest dialling tone in the UK is 01234 - it is the code for Bedford.
There are over 77 miilion mobile phones in sue in the uk, more than the people living there. However, this figure probably includes laptop dongles.
….some other news. Insurance2go are only a few weeks away from launching a new service which we believe will shake things up in the mobile phone insurace market. With more and more people opting to insure their handsets due to the increase in costs of handsets and the lengthening of contracts that customers are signing this will be a pleasant surprise to many looking to insure their handset.
Currently in the UK about 25% of users have a SmartPhone such as the iPhone, the Nexus One or Nokia E73, this figures looks set to increase dramtically over the next 24 months. also the introduction of HD Voice from Orange and 3 will increase the turnover of handsets and make taking insurance more attractive.