Sunday, March 27, 2011

Thing 21: Short Message Service (SMS)

I could use SMS to reach out for the Angolan English teachers to let them know about workshops, resources, eventual scholarship programs, etc, but I use email instead.  You don’t have to pay for text received here but the few phone networks here are not reliable.  Yesterday we could not contact anyone by cell phone for about two hours -the mission employees rely on radios in situations like that.  Cell phones are common in Angola more so than landlines, though.  I use SMS a lot with a small number of contacts because I am afraid the use with a large number would impair my phone, which I greatly use to work (it’s an Embassy phone).   

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