Last year Americans spent 2.3 trillion minutes chatting on cellphones, according to the USwireless trade association CTIA — a ninefold increase since 2000.
Approximately 85% of uswireless subscribers now use digital technology and the transition period is designed to enable analogue subscribers to upgrade to digital technology.
现在已经有大约85%的无线用户使用数字技术，设置过渡期是为了使模拟用户可以升级到数字技术。
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As a species, Ms Turkle thinks, we run the risk of letting the permanent wireless social clouds that surround us steal part of our nature.