You've really only got five friends

Started by dwarakesh, Dec 10, 2008, 09:46 PM

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dwarakesh

It doesn't matter how long your list of contacts is, the number of people you will actually call is likely to be about five.

Arecent survey by SK Telecom revealed that 62 per cent of calls made by customers were accounted for by just five numbers. Of those five, 29 per cent of calls were directed to just one number, and 51 per cent went to the top three numbers. Women, teens and 20s and those aged over 50 call fewer people.

The survey is the rationale for  SK Telecom's Pajama Five package, whereby a user designates four people on the screen to join in a group, making it easy to make a call or send a text message to group members. More than 350,000 have signed up.

Coincidentally, similar call plans have been worked out independent of any survey by US network provider T-Mobile, offering unlimited calls and text messages to the five most frequently called numbers. Samsung Electronics' Anycall Haptic 2 package also features a "Top Five" function, with which a user can connect to the five most frequently called numbers from the screen instantly.

Ahn Hoe-kyun, an executive from SK Telecom's roaming and data business division, said that people tend to put more emphasis on maintaining close emotional bonds with a few, rather than keeping wide but superficial relationships. Five people is about all your average human can manage.

Sudhakar

Thanks for this real info.

May be the research seems to be right.  :D

But my bill shows that am a business man.
  ;)