It is a weird situation, one which actually takes me back to 1994 when I had my first mobile phone but no one else I knew had one. I was suddenly reachable no matter where I was but other than professionally no one would bother calling me and I couldn’t reach anyone other than on their landline.
I always have been a fan of mobile gizmos and even had a Swatch Pager (watch) so the step to get a very expensive mobile phone, mainly without any real functionality was rather normal.

I do not recall anymore if text messaging was already available in those day and if it were I never really used it before 1998, when I had an Ericsson T28 (yes those ultra-thin and light flip phones), mainly because no one else had a mobile phone or funds to regularly use one. Read more