Some topics do indeed take longer to relate than others, be it face to face or on the phone. But what if your phone company charges exorbitant rates? Then it might very well be that, for economy’s sake, the reply to your wife-to-be calling you up while you’re already waiting at the altar to tell you “It’s off!” might turn out as laconic as “No problem!” Or, perhaps, in response to your son telling you “Dad, I’m gay!” a curt “Excellent!” MVO: “Sometime life’s more than a 3-minute conversation. Talk for 60 minutes, pay for just 3. With Vodafone.”