The Great Melting Pot – What Most Mobile Companies Don’t Know.
When I was growing up in a small town in Washington State, I thought there were only around 5 or 6 nationalities of people who had major populations in the United States.
After moving to the New York City area after college, I found out I was very wrong. There were people from Australia, Albania, Bangladesh, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Colombia, Dominican Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Haiti, India, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Lebanon, Mexico, Pakistan, Philippines, Peru, Poland, Russia, Thailand, UK, Vietnam and many more.
A few years later I started selling prepaid phone cards and I discovered that people living in the USA were calling family overseas. People were calling to hundreds of countries worldwide. You name the country, and calls were being made to that country in mass amounts. Calls were being made to Cambodia, Chile, Ethiopia, Laos, Kenya, Turkey and worldwide.
You know what? People living in the US are still making billions of dollars worth of international calls and most mobile network providers dont realize...