Coming Soon: A Cellphone Directory

[Aquarian]

grrr. if they include you in a directory by default, I'll cancel my service and become a hermit! If you want to be in one fine, but not by default and there should be not cost to keeping yourself out of the list imo. my cell# is private for cost and other reasons.

WASHINGTON — After years of anonymity, the numbers of most of the nation's mobile phones will be compiled later this year in the first wireless directory.

The database being assembled by the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Assn. is expected to include about 75% of the 163 million mobile phones in the United States, making looking up a wireless number as easy as dialing 411.

The association is pitching the directory as a boon for real estate agents and other on-the-go professionals who want people to be able to find their mobile numbers.

But privacy advocates, some members of Congress and even a major cellular carrier — Verizon Wireless — fear that mobile phones, once immune to telemarketers and e-mail spammers, could become as vulnerable as home telephone lines and computer in-boxes.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2026&e=1&u=/latimests/comingsoonacellphonedirectory

 

[Joz]

Originally posted by Aquarian
grrr. if they include you in a directory by default, I'll cancel my service and become a hermit! If you want to be in one fine, but not by default and there should be not cost to keeping yourself out of the list imo. my cell# is private for cost and other reasons.


I'm with you on this one. My phone is used for MY benefit, not someone else's. I don't want to be bothered when I out trying to have a good time, except for emergencies which are a given.

AND, since we're on the subject of phones, something that sticks in my craw. I don't want to have to listen to your conversation....especially about your last ob/gyn visit!

 

[Aquarian]

heh, that reminds me of those commercials a while back, guy shouting into his phone 'hey, jackie, doctor said it's just the clap!' or something like that, no idea what the commercial was for...