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> More Reasons to Suspect the Bogus CNN Story About Nick Berg

22 August 2005, 06:52

Six years ago, in 1999, only 5 percent of the population (primarily business people) even carried cellphones. Of those, only a small percentage (maybe 3%) had any kind of a slow (9600 baud) wireless data service. A student would not typically be in the .15% (yes, about one-seventh of one percent) of the population that had a wireless data connection.