Cell phone directory gets hoots, hollers: This seems like a no-brainer to me.
The days of searching in vain for someone’s cell phone number are almost over. Starting early next year, you’ll be able to call directory assistance to get a mobile number.
However, some people object:
“These devices are considered much more personal than landline (phones),” says Chris Hoofnagle of the Electronic Privacy Information Center. “People tend to carry them everywhere and answer them when they ring.”
What’s more, cell phone subscribers pay for incoming calls, even unwanted ones.
Such concerns prompted Verizon Wireless, the No. 1 wireless company, to keep its 40 million subscribers out of the directory.
Isn’t it interesting how cell phones have made phone numbers personal? A phone number used to be associated with a family ot a business — a group of people. But now, everyone in my family can have a cell phone, and therefore a phone number associated with them personally.
Why should cell phones not have a directory? Your number already displays when you make a call on the recipients phone, doesn’t it? So the argument that a land line is less private than a cell phone is ridiculous. Where’s the complaint about anonymity with respect to the GPS mandated to be in all cell phones by 2005? Many single individuals have had a land line that is directly associated with them, as they are the only member of the household. You can always opt out to be unlisted, as has been the historic case.
Part of this worry about spam calling or unwanted calls is that phone companies such as Verizon are dipping in the kettle at both ends. You should never be charged air time other than for originating the call. A land line call recipient isn't charged for their 'line' time other than the monthly subscription rate, are they? So why should a cell phone user pay these currently usurious rates, rates equivalent to long distance charges, on both ends of the call? If spammers had to pay these rates, I bet you wouldn't get many spam calls.
found this great site the other night that solves all your problems.
www.wyty.com
I agree with the last person to post. Wyty works as a place to have your cell phone number or other information listed-but you controll the information, not your wirless company. pretty good idea.
check out this site: http://www.fraudfrond.com it's a dumb site about "cell phone towers that are disguised (poorly) as fake trees. Have you seen these things??" I love these fake trees. i'm mildly obsessed. bought a shirt from the site.
all i fucking wanted to do was find a number and your making it harder i dont care a bouit other people i need a phone number duh!! you must be real geeks
Yeah! What he said! Duh!
And why is the title for these things at the bottom? It's just grammar duh. The title goes on the top, duh. Stupid website! Duh.
Stupid Website!
[To the tune of "Ugly Cat" by Pheobe Boufait
Stupid Website, Stupid Website, Nobody Luvs you. He says duh. I say duhs Where is your title at?... Duh at the bottom
