Yet another DUH! 4690

How do you know? That's not been my experience.

Its obvious. The only thing for which the data is of value is for use in getting a cell phone ban.

You might, if you have an accident on a not-well-traveled road and the next person, and only person that will be along that way in the next 1-2 hour, does not have a cell phone because they decided it wasn't worth $50 a month to have one that they couldn't use most of the time. Meanwhile, U are trapped in the vehicle and bleeding profusely.

Clue - I'm not paying $50 a month just to carry it around, not being able to use it, in case there's an accident to report. I'm going to cancel or non-renew the contract and sell the damn thing...

Which will likely happen to some extent as some people find that $50 or so a month is too much to pay just to have it on the rare occasion that they are not in the car and also away from a landline phone,

I mean, the way it is now, if someone with a cellphone calls someone else with a cellphone, chances are one of them is in a car. That would mean that the vast majority of cell calls would not result in a conversation. I doubt, out of maybe 200 or so calls I've made or received this year up to now, that I've had any more than 5 of them where one or the other of us has not been in a car. Even if I could put up with the restriction, I probably still couldn't talk to anyone I usually talk to, 'cuz they would be driving and couldn't answer. How valuable is that? Not very.

Dave Head