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When I lived in Germany, I very rarely called home because even watching the numbers on my old phone, each one another 23 pfennigs gone, made by frugal heart drop. Now, a call from my cell phone is cheaper than the best rate I got in the bad old days, and a call from the landline is so cheap as to be almost negligible. The Economist has a chart which shows this shift quite nicely.

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