to jam or not to jam the mobile? This is the question.

2 February 2007
Book: Mobile Communication in Everyday Life
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The mobile phone has become an integral part of our everyday life communication. A lot of people use mobile phones and let them ring when they’re surrounded by many people, such as in restaurants, theatres, concerts or in buses / metro and trains. To my mind this is very unpleasant, because the last thing you want to hear in such a situation is to be disturbed by a - often ridiculous ! - ring. So that’s why new devices have been set up to jam mobile phones around them. But I think they should not be legal : what about the freedom of expression ?! Why preventing people from calling somebody or being called ? Let’s take this example : a person is having an heart attack in a theatre. How to save this person if one cannot call the emergency ? It would be very unfair. I think there should rather be “calling areas” in trains for example, not to disturb the other passengers with the ring and the conversation. And people should better use buzzer instead of ring with their mobile phones.