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Maybe a slight derail, but is anyone else as annoyed as I am about the TV commercial with people playing musical chairs with cars?
If it was a Public Safety message, I could see it, but they are trying to make it seem like their cars are fun to drive.
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I don't think we really need cell-phone specific legislation. We just need to loosen the definition of "careless and reckless driving" to include cell phone use, text messaging, and movies visible from the driver's seat.
Also, I don't see a problem with courts subpoenaing phone company records to see if a call was active. It would only happen after somebody makes a mistake, so the involved parties would have a right to know.
By the way, is there anybody who would be seriously inconvenienced if phone companies simply disabled roaming (perhaps across more than two towers)? I'm pretty sure the telcos would be more than willing to do so if they weren't going to suffer the public criticism.
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quote:Originally posted by NotMe: By the way, is there anybody who would be seriously inconvenienced if phone companies simply disabled roaming (perhaps across more than two towers)? I'm pretty sure the telcos would be more than willing to do so if they weren't going to suffer the public criticism.
I very much want to have roaming available in case of car trouble, etc. It's pretty important, especially for women alone on the road.
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By roaming, I mean not transferring a call from one tower to another. I have never supported the idea that a cell phone should only work in a specific area, or be cheaper in a certain area. (And there are no technical reasons to do so, whereas transferring calls from one tower to another is significantly more complex than having a call go through a single tower.)
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