Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!netsys!vector!telecom-gateway From: decvax!decwrl!apple!zygot!john@ucbvax.berkeley.edu (John Higdon) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Cellular Radio Hazards Message-ID: Date: 29 Mar 89 20:35:09 GMT Sender: news@vector.UUCP Organization: ATI Wares Team Lines: 20 Approved: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 115, message 3 of 8 In article , rh@well.uucp (Robert Horvitz) writes: > As for cellular, there's much more certain harm being > caused to your privacy (as others have noted, cellular systems BROADCAST > your words over very large areas), and also to your wallet. For those > reasons alone you're better off stopping to use a pay-phone. Thank you for your opinion. Unfortunately we now live in the era of COCOTs (or COPTs, as Pacific Bell refers to them), and it is quite literally cheaper in many cases to use a cellular telephone. Putting the inconvenience of trying to locate a pay phone aside, I know that I can always send DTMF to my voice mail with my handheld. Also, I know that long distance will be reasonably priced, that my party and I can hear each other, that I can call anywhere from Napa to Monterey for the same 45 cent charge. I'm afraid, sir, that pay phones are cellular's greatest selling tool. -- John Higdon john@zygot ..sun!{apple|cohesive|pacbell}!zygot!john