Net Romances

***Virdan*** · #1 05-20-2005, 10:30 PM

In line with the style of technical writing, I thought I would introduce several “case service around in this great nation of the quaid. for those of us who are less technically literate, the sms, brought to Pakistan by mobilink Pakistan in conjunction with a company called c-track, which was dependent on the sms service to offer its service to the local public.

Essentially stands for short message service. the entire idea being that you don’t need to “talk” to someone to communicate an idea or thought. you can simply send then a text Pakistani cell phone user market into a cell phone so that they could avail this facility and sms chat with each other. The corporate market place was already investing heavily into cellular phones and simply appreciated this additional feature.

I’m making it sound like this sms service is something new. Its not. It’s been around for as long as mobile phones have been around however, the SMSes really got hit when mobilink decided to start charging for sending smss for their pre-paid card users. hmmm, you say? well, they had initially

Addicted thousands of pre-paid cell phone subscriber’s cyberspace from close to the SMS ke aad by letter then send and receive SMSs for free. no change. mufta. However, monthly billing-subscribes were already paying for the service. but it was the fact that the cell phone was afford able all on a sudden and for pre-paid describers, even if you didn’t have any condition your card, at least you could sms your acquaintances and survive. Well, the rug was swiped right from under the feet of us qarib folk, and there were all the privileges of the already-under-privileged.

Enough of my rudimentary blab about the history of sms and pre-paid subscribers. following are a few sketches of sms users how they use (d) the service and how the great SMS charge effect and enjoy.

Profile: firdous, a 16-year old young boy inter-pass waiting to get his admission to the Karachi University.
Time of year: Summer of 2002
Place: Karachi, Pakistan.

Its 3:00 am and firdous has just logged off the net and finds himself tossing a tennis ball against the back talk of his bedroom, his cell phone flashes indicating a message, why’d you go offline, sangi? finish talk with me now. he furiously grabs the phone and starts to ping a message back, ‘go to hell yaar. You stop fill ring with my girl, yaar!’ immediately, answer, pushing all angry thoughts a side from 1:00 p.m. 5:30 am, they talk away about the most inspire of things. Thats It.