Telenor - Celebrating 150 Years..of WHAT???

All advertisments by Telenor end up with the Company proclaiming that they are celebrating 150 years of something....Now Alexader Graham Bell invented Telephony in 1876 while at his Boston University lab. Which means that Telenor were into such fields before the invention of Telephone itself. Turns out, they are right! They laid the first telegraph cable between Drammen and Chritiania as the Norwegian Telegraph Administration co. and made the first Graham Bell Telephone demonstration in 1877. And here i was thinking that they used to fly pigeons or something and were celebrationg the great cycle of human communications evolution. You have to agree though, despite there being great risks of Brain Cancer and other radiation related diseases, Cell Phone and other modern communication technology is definitley less smelly and easier to keep up with than pigeons despite their being bio degradeable and eateable (tastes just like chicken). Also, all you have to do is try and read the manual, and off you go, with the other stuff, like pigeons and falcons, you have to feed them (no 72 hours batteries for you there), no videos and loads of bird shit for good measure. Plus, the Falcons had a slight tendecy to gouge out the eyes off their handlers. Lovely pets though.
Now cell phones have really advanced in the past 8 years or so, i remember my friend buying the First CELL PHONE in our group. It was a Paktel connection 15 Rs. per call (my pocket money back then was Rs. 50 per week) and it was bigger than a brick. There was a theory that making calls from it were very expensive so he was using it for after laundry ironing as well. A two in one package if you will.
Then in came Mottorrollaa, with Maybelink in harness. The Vader Types and Startacs....the ALL NEW NOKIAs...6110 and 5110ss and such. It is strange that you may buy a cell phone for the price of a good motorbike,yet after two years the bike is still sellable, yet you may only use the cell phone for your own perverse pleasure cause no one else would want to buy it for anything more than what you dont want to sell it for.
every body wants a piece of the new cell phone revolution. In five years of modern evolution, both Darwin and I are baffled as to how we used to live and thrive through 24 hours of the mundane routine we call life without the insane ringing of bells all around us. How on earth did we graduate and how on earth were the popular kids popular when they didnt have their N series sets with the ingrained mega pixel technologies. HOW HOW HOW.
I would like to believe that we got around well enough. Yes i agree we should have cell phones, i am not one of THOSE who are against advancement and No i dont think that cell phones will destroy our culture. It was pretty much gone anyway. The cell phones have just smoothed out a few wrinkles, whacked in the proverbial last nail.
There are good sides of it though, other than the bloody building sized billboards they have up everywhere. I would like to stress that i am not a chauvinist (a totally different topic, will be discussed soon), but i utterly dislike LARGE HOARDINGS with predominantly females selling the strangest of products in the most laughable of manners (Gillete mach3??? for men?? anyone?). The latest good news, okay not the latest, but i have heard that the Telenor Billboard near Zafar Ali Road is now gone. Now lets try for the Maybelink boards and get them going. A sight for sore eyes is one thing, being the site for sore eyes is another.