The Mind's Eye - Telephone.

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I grew up with this type of phone, the cost of calling anyone close or far away was very high too. The father away the call is going, the more costlier it is. But my grandfather was rich enough to afford one because his fist two son were all in the US. Many people across the street who have someone far away do take our house as a receiving point to receive any call from there loved ones abroad or in a distant land.

I knew how to dial it too, just one number at a time and with respect to your country code as against the ones we are having now. I mean the GSM whose code doesn't start with the + sign.

Despite the fact that we don't make calls with it, the charges for receiving calls with it was still high, sometimes they'll cut the line off and we have to reconnect again. It went on for awhile till when phone booth became popular.

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With the above, you can buy the unit of airtime you want in the early 90's and 2000's and slot the ATM-lookalike into any call booth to call any place. You don't have to go into another person's house to receive call anymore.

The corruption in Nigeria didn't make the Nitel scheme to work and the telecommunications sector was privatised, giving way to private company like Econet, 9mobile, Etisalat, Airtel, Glo, MTN etc.

There presence brought a new wave of types of phones with it. The predecessor of the phones we are using today, the likes of Bird, Sagem, Samsung, Triumph, Motorola, Nokia 3310c, Thuraya and many more.

Telephone since then has been on an increasing face value since the entrance of this telecommunications sector. They being along with them most times the phones they enjoy there consumer to buy, adding a peck to it. Which is free 3-6GB worth of data every month. My own phone came with a free 2GB worth of data when I bought it.

Telephone will keep on evolving,we now have the iPhones, Samsung is delivering top notch phones with powerful camera and processors, Nokia and Google isn't coming last either.