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Posted by Marc A. Rivlin on Sat Mar 7 22:39:15 2009, in response to Re: Cell Phone Service in the Subways - Yea or Nay?, posted by Jeff Rosen on Thu Mar 5 11:05:32 2009. There's a difference. I find loud conversations between two (or among several) people the exception and not the rule on the train. For some reason, etiquette not caught up with cell phone behavior, nor has the technology caught up with the fact that many calls are being overheard on both ends. People talk as though they are alone in a soundproof room. The technology (ie: poor call quality) seems to demand shouting on the part of both parties to the call.I would add that there does not seem to be a safety demand for cell phones. Perhaps, there would have been in the era when I grew up when muggings were much more prevalent, but that is just not the case today. We don't have a body of evidence that cell phones would make the subway safety. I see the convenience argument, but I don't think that outweighs the annoyance. Therefore, I'd just as soon not have cell phones on the trains and platforms. Then again, I do not have nor do I intend to get a cell phone, so I am more of an outlier. |
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