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May 17, 2006

Cell Phones and the Emperor's New Clothes

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Posted by Dennis M. Kennedy

I doubt that anyone has more trouble with or dislikes cell phone service more than I do. Today was another adventure in tin-can-and-string sound quality and dropped calls - and I was the one on the land line today.

I don't know anyone who does not admit to having similar problems when I press them, even though they seem to love their actual cell phones - the hardware, that is. What the heck are we all paying for?

Tonight, I found a podcast of a a presentation from Ed Zander of Motorola and here's the description:

Motorola Chairman and CEO Ed Zander says the ultimate cell phone would come back into the home–that is, it would be the only phone one would need. But that development seems far away for users in North America. “People always say to me, ‘I can go to China, and go to the Great Wall of China and make a better phone call than here in the United States,” Zander offered during his keynote interview with Gartner analysts Nick Jones and Ken Dulaney. “And it’s probably true,” Zander noted.

Zander is more polite than most people I know when they get started on this topic - here's a link to the podcast - http://www.podtech.net/?p=645. Check out his point of view.

What do the rest of you think of cell phone service in the U.S.? What are we getting for what we are paying? Is it reasonable to expect more? Or am I the only one this really bothers?

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1. William Wilson on May 20, 2006 11:58 AM writes...

I agree cell service is not all that it's cracked up to be. My brother is a neurologist, and one of the clinics where he works doesn't have good coverage--and this is in a town with a large university. The cell phone doesn't do him much good there.

The service my wife and I use is adequate, but voice mails left by callers can take a day or longer to show up at our phone--not a good thing.

Cell phones can be a convenience if you don't expect too much, but I'd never give up my land line.

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