Oh, those wacky Germans....

Oct 3 04:44 UTC 2000

A recent study revealed some interesting observations:

        -45% switch their cellphones off during sex, but 58% do so at
        the movies.

        -25% switch off while eating at home, but 46% switch off while
        eating out.


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So what do you do with your pagers and cellphones?

response 2 of 42:

Oct 3 12:36 UTC 2000

I always turn mine off at movies.

I don't generally turn it off during sex because I'm not really concerned
about my cell phone at that time.

response 4 of 42:

Oct 3 13:55 UTC 2000

(nyt)

Cell Phones Most Popular in Ireland
By BLOOMBERG NEWS
 
 
DUBLIN, Oct.  Ireland has more cell phone lines than traditional phones for
the first time, with just under 50 percent of the population, or 1.86 million
people, now owning cell phones, Ireland's telecommunications regulator says..

Telecommunications now accounts for about 2.7 percent of Ireland's gross
domestic product with total revenue from fixed, mobile and broadcasting
markets worth about 1.85 billion Irish pounts ($2.1 billion), the regulator,
Etain Doyle, said in a statement.

"The mobile market in Ireland now exhibits the third-fastest relative growth
rate in Western Europe," she said.

Still, a phone call in Ireland is relatively expensive. Residential calls are
more expensive than in 13 other countries, according to a survey of 19
countries, while business calls are more expensive than 11 other countries,
she said.

Internet use now accounts for 22 percent of total fixed-line minutes, the
regulator added.

response 6 of 42:

Oct 3 14:25 UTC 2000

I have contemplated a cel phone for emergenices, I have needed one more than
I'd care to, when a calling card or a pay phone wasn't availible.  I'm
thinking of investing in one of those pre-paid cel phones, so I'm not paying
every month for something I don't use.  

response 8 of 42:

Oct 3 15:42 UTC 2000

I also have neither a cell phone or pager, although I've been considering
obtaining a cell phone. I think I'd turn it off quite a bit.

response 10 of 42:

Oct 3 16:47 UTC 2000

four hours stranded on M-14 convinced me to buy a cell phone.  since my plan
has free long distance anywhere in the usa, i use it to make all my long
distance calls.

response 12 of 42:

Oct 3 17:44 UTC 2000

I have neither a cell phone or a pager, nor a particular desire for such 
things.  On the rare occasions that I'm not within striking distance of 
a communication device, it is by preference.  

My wife, on the other hand, does have a(n alphanumeric) pager as 
required by her job, but she finds it mostly bothersome, particularly 
when I send her completely inappropriate messages in the middle of an 
important meeting.

response 14 of 42:

Oct 3 20:18 UTC 2000

I got a cell phone because I found that there were (rare) times when, though
I wasn't actually working, I needed to be available so my boss could ask me
questions.  Before I had a cell phone, this meant staying at home, and was
most disruptive to my social life.  
  As for waht I do with it...  I leave it on most of the time.  I turn it off
during movies and such if I remember to.  During sex, I either take it out
of my pocket so as not to damage it, or just leave it there and retrieve it
from the ceiling fan later.  

response 16 of 42:

Oct 3 21:15 UTC 2000

I think that the problem of cell phones in classrooms and movie theatres could
easily be solved by passing the following laws:
1.      Anyone receiving a cellphone call in a classroom, lecture, or movie
theatre must immediately exit to the lobby.
2.      All aisle seats must be equipped with detachable paddles.
3.      All people seated in aisle seats are required to smack anybody walking
by with a cell phone conversation going.

response 18 of 42:

Oct 4 10:39 UTC 2000

I have bought a prepay thingy ashke, for the very same reasons as you 
are  thinking of. I still got to enhance for use abroad. But 
unfrotunately US wavelengths generally aren't on European cellphones, so
 when I go back to the US I still got to rent/buy another.

Pfft. It's turned off most of the time anyway.
Keeping you cellphone turned in public places like 
restaurants/movies and such is rude beyond measure.
Very much like chewing with your mouth open, or
shouting out loud inside a hospital.
Those people deserve to get wacked.

response 20 of 42:

Oct 4 16:40 UTC 2000

I have a cell phone, and a two-way pager, and I pay for roadside assistance.
I never want to be stranded ;-)

If I'm in a movie theatre, or anywhere else I'd consider chirping and ringing
noises to be irritating, I put the phone and pager on vibrate.

response 22 of 42:

Oct 4 21:16 UTC 2000

I'll vouch for the Ireland thing - I have never seen so many cell phones in
my life . . .

Gary and I each have cell phones, becaused he wanted them and so we got them.
It's nice to be able to reach each other for something stupid or something
big.

response 24 of 42:

Oct 5 07:15 UTC 2000

I have a pager that work gave me.  I haven't told anybody how to page me, so
it gets only occasional work pages.  I tend to often not carry it when I'm
not on call, which is most of the time.  I do always carry my cell phone, and
it's almost always on, although often not in the same room as me.  I often
don't answer it when it rings.

My cell phone gets a mix of work calls, mostly during business hours, and
calls from various friends who either learned that number during the seven
weeks when I didn't have a home phone number, or who assume that I'm probably
not home when they want to call me.  With my previous job, the cell phone got
abused a lot by calling me about things that weren't really that urgent.  At
this job that hasn't really been a problem, and I'm generally happy to hear
from my friends, so it hasn't been a big problem.