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From: jackh@zehntel.UUCP (jack hagerty)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: Car Telephones
Message-ID: <1854@zehntel.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 21-May-85 15:43:58 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 21 15:43:58 1985
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> Why should Mobile Telephones be treated any different than CB radios?
> 
> -- 
> Roy W. H. Walters Jr.   201-949-5743

Because CB radios are generally used as low level time passers when your
brain is is slow-mode anyway.  It's always a grab bag as to who you're
going to talk to since it depends on who's in the area, whether they have
a CB, if it's set to your channel, etc. (this does not, of course, diminish
their value in an emergency).

A celluar phone, on the other hand, ties directly into Ma Bell [and all the
little baby Bells :-)] hence allows you to talk to anyone you want at any 
time you want.  My uneasyness stems from the advertising. These things are
being aimed at high powered businessmen who generally view driving as a 
frustrating waste of time; time they could be spending on the job moving and
shaking.  Cellular phones now give these guys the tool to remove the last
shred of attention they used to spend on driving and turn it towards more
"profitable" pursuits.
-- 
                    Jack Hagerty, Zehntel Automation Systems
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