For some people, missed calls have become the best means of communication.

This is the era of missed calls. “Sorry, wrong number” has been replaced by “I’ll give you a missed call on your cell phone”. People across India are giving each other millions of missed calls all the time. Earlier this month, mobile phone companies bemoaned that missed calls are hurting them, because missed calling uses their facilities but are entirely free. Operators do not get any revenue out of it. That is, of course, the point. Missed calling is free and therefore my teenage niece likes to give me a missed call. Her pocket money stays intact while I hurriedly call her back to check out that nothing is seriously wrong. Our maid gives us many missed calls, and we call her back with even greater urgency, because a missed call is anyway better than a missing maid. Economists will soon discover that the phenomenon of missed calls results in redistribution of wealth – from me to my maid, or to my niece, uncle, mama, brother, friend, son / daughter, and so on, because we bear the cost that they would otherwise have borne. Missed calls are truly a great economic leveller. But why should mobile phone companies feel so persecuted by missed calls? Is a missed call not always followed by a real call which earns revenue, as the receiver of missed calls telephones back? This sounds logical, but innovation has overtaken logic. I know of two friends who use only missed calls to convey messages both ways. They use missed calls as a sort of Morse code – one missed call, a brief gap, followed by two missed calls is a code which denotes “can we have lunch together?” With the money they save through this unique mode of communication, the answer is always three quick missed calls, which means “Yes, of course.” or two missed calls which means: "Not today",. End of the day, I hate missed calls; I dont give Missed Calls to any.