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1. I say OK for cellphones, but under only certain conditions:
   - if you are just texting, or doing anything BUT talking, you can use it wherever you want
   - if you need to talk, there should be a specific area where you can use it, and not from your seat.

   And if cellphones are not allowed… even better!

   Comment by Celine — August 7, 2008 @ 2:03 pm

2. Yes, let us use cell phones, but not ones we have to pay the airlines for..our own cell phones.

   I also say, Airlines would have to ban talking on the cell phones…in fact would have to be like smoking in the lavatory..super big felony crime and huge fine NO TALKING on cell phones, anything but talking…and not even a special area to talk

   Comment by jg — August 7, 2008 @ 4:30 pm

3. I think we should be allowed to use our cell phone on planes. I agree that it should be limited to a specific area.

   Comment by LL — August 7, 2008 @ 6:53 pm

4. Ummm…

   Age 18 to 34: almost half said cells SHOULD be allowed

   This means that MORE then half said cells SHOULD NOT be allowed.

   Making the responses the same between generations?

   Comment by Michael — August 7, 2008 @ 7:56 pm

5. I’m 28 - I’m going to buy a handheld signal blocker.

   Comment by bryan SFO — August 7, 2008 @ 11:37 pm

6. Texting & email from phones? Sure. Talking on phones? Never.

   My 40-minute train commute feels like 90 when an inconsiderate yakker is behind me the whole way. A 4-hour transcon with a talker in the seat next to me would be hell.

   Comment by Andy — August 8, 2008 @ 9:05 am

7. Please–no talking. During a two-hour train ride, I found out more than I wanted to know about someone’s family, who they were above to fire, and what they thought of various employees. Amtrak has now put on a “Silent Car” because of these annoying calls. I don’t even want to imagine a similar experience while flying to London.

   Comment by Anne — August 8, 2008 @ 12:13 pm

8. Oh please PLEASE no cell phones on airplanes. Screaming babies and the occasional loud, drunken fool are enough, don’t you think?

   Comment by Shannon @Babiesonline — August 11, 2008 @ 10:15 pm

9. Ask this question to any long-time rail commuter. Mobile phones have caused fights, tears, and delays (A person tried to remove a phone from a toilet and became trapped!) Their “no answer” will be heard up in the “cheap seats”. Between those mobile-phone novices who speak loud enough to be heard in the next cabin (They don’t realize that the ambient noise around them doesn’t affect the ability to hear at the other end of the conversation) and those poor souls who need to stroke their egos with loud “important conversations”, all we need now is the baritone using the speaker phone.

   Quality of life is at stake here. The air-borne mobile phone is a convenience, not a necessity. Relax, read a book.

   Comment by Cigar Jon — August 14, 2008 @ 12:48 am

10. If somebody next to me on the plan was talking on the phone I would probably turn my head directly toward him and start saying “Blah blah blah blah blah” at the same volume he was talking at. Probably not the best response, but hey, if he’s annoying me I can sure annoy him!

    Comment by Jeremy — August 14, 2008 @ 12:56 pm

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