The Beep

The beep just might change your life. You see, people here don't have cell phone plans. We just pre-pay units of phone credit. So, people are always looking for ways to conserve credit without making the communication suffer. As a result, some really smart person invented The Beep. It is known as The Beep in the francophone part of the country. In the Anglophone regions, it is The Flash. There are many variations of The Beep, but the basic is this: you don't start using credit when you call someone until after the first two rings, so in essence the first two are free. Therefore if you want to say hi to someone without using credit, but don't have anything important to say, use The Beep. If you want to tell someone you're thinking of them but you don't necessarily want to talk to them, flash them. That's right- beep and flash are verbs. It's pretty cool. In Mora, we've taken it a step further and developed an tricate series of beeps in order to avoid using phone credit. One beep means Yes, two beeps NO and three beeps Maybe. Try it sometime.