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Posted by Henry R32 #3730 on Thu Mar 5 16:35:29 2009, in response to Re: Cell Phone Service in the Subways - Yea or Nay?, posted by Dan on Thu Mar 5 12:44:56 2009. True, but:1. A 2 minute call during an emergency situation is still 2 minutes longer than what they have now. 2. As far as emergency services using it, they can use the priority code embedded in the SIM card to filter out who gets disconnected. This way, emergency services and power users who figured out how to change their priority code will still get long calls. 3. A college girl gabbing to all her friends about how awesome NYC is and how drunk she got last night can deal with the time limits. 4. From the conversations I've both overheard and had on the phone, the importance of a phone call is inversely proportional to the length of the conversation. In general, if something is earth shatteringly important, the call will end soon and the user will then *do something*. If the user is not in a position to do anything about it, the conversation digresses into talking about how there's nothing that can be done, and the importance of continuing the conversation is lowered. A lot can be communicated effectively in two minutes, and perhaps forced disconnections will help people realize exactly how useless most of what they say on the phone actually is. But, since this goes directly against the cell phone model of "we want people to talk as long as possible so we get more money from them," they will never allow people to realize that. Long conversations are perfectly acceptable when walking down a street or in your own home/office. But when someone is in any location where the same people will have to endure listening to the conversation (such as a train platform, on the train, in a bus shelter, on a bus, etc) a useless conversation longer than 2 minutes is very grating. Otherwise, there wouldn't be a market for localized cell phone jammers (which I really should pick up from chinatown one of these days). |
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