Mobile phones - anyone else in the "stubborn few" and not got one?

[FrannyandZooey]

Only 4% of adults between 25 and 44 without a mobile phone

I SAID the internet, do keep up

or live event with judy wots er name

i know you said the internet. i was just adding another 'con' to the list.

I imagine at some point in time when they can improve reception people might do away with their residential landlines as well

Sorry I don't think I am keeping up very well myself tonight

I haven't got one and neither has DH. We are probably the only couple on the planet, but neither of us wants one.

bless. it'll be all the interference from the pylons...

I'm currently researching the safest mobile phones to have, so I can let my 13yo ds have one. I'll post about it when I've got my stuff togehter, but if anyone else has done any research, let me know

They have a mobile phone mast on top of a water tower nearby, actually

so they are irradiating the water, if I am not very much mistaken?

I haven't got one and don't want one for the same reason as fizzbuzz. DH has one, mostly for work reasons.

I think you're worrying unnecessarily about the water, Franny. For one thing, the signal goes outwards not downwards (so people who live in flats under masts aren't affected) and for another, I can't imagine what it could possibly be doing to the water.

Fauve, I think the distraction and mugging risks are considerably higher than those from non-ionizing radiation, particularly if you are not too generous with top-ups. I shall continue to hold out against giving my son one (he doesn't actually want one, and would almost certainly have the sense to keep it turned off so I couldn't use it to keep tabs on him, even if I wanted to...)

Did you hear that the church of England is probably going to make churches take theirs down because they could be transmitting porn, gambling, etc.

That is an argument against 3G and 4G masts - they're for phones which aren't just for messaging, but for sending/watching videos and photos. There is coverage for ordinary phones in lots of areas, so new masts there shouldn't be necessary, but they're sprouting up like triffids in a very aggressive roll-out supported by the government. Local planning depts are even cross about it.

I'm also an anti-mast campaigner, and I haven't got one [righteous emoticon]

I have two - a work one - so have to have it and my own which is oh four years old....its pay as you go and I rarely charge it......HATE the things with a passion and hate the fact people think if you have one you HAVE to answer it...

I hate the way people stop calling my land line. If I'm at home I don't have my mobile phone switched on.

I have a mobile phone and can make £10 pay as you go last for over 1yr.
I never text and only have it for emergencies.
People think that a mobile phone frees them to do other things but it is just a ball and chain.
It does NOT give you freedom.
AB.

I don't have one ,but then i'm a billy-no-mates!

I caved in and got one in November
only because I started working

Always text in the full Queen's English and don't have a camera on it. Nokia equivalent of two tin cans on a piece of string. Suits me and all.