Now, though cell phones use both voice and data for their networks and it has been ongoing competition since then between carriers. When data first arrived the cell phone populous people raged about it. Now they could surf the web and navigate their way home while all still maintaining a conversation on the phone. However, companies saw how big of a demand data became since the introduction of social networking. Now companies have put a limit to how much voice and data you can have depending on the price you pay for service.
“The Cordless Tie” Ellen Goodman has written many passages for the Boston Globe Her work has not gone unrecognized, in fact in 1981 she won the Pulitzer Prize for her hard work. Of her many passages “The Cordless Tie That Binds People To Work” is a article that to me, sticks out. Cellular Devices are a fairly new item, but today more and more people have cell phones. Their a great device for communications, and if they have saved people life’s. Like everything in this world too much of a good thing is bad. Before cell phones people went to work then went home.
GLT Task1 WGU GLT Task1 Information technology is a driving force in globalization and changing many aspects of how people live. India is a rapidly growing country and in 2011 59% of Indian households are reported to have a cell phone. (Kurtz, 2012) Before cell phones in India, only the privileged had access to landlines, and even then they had to wait years to obtain. More people have cell phones then toilets in India. (Kurtz, 2012) The introduction of cell phones created job opportunities for workers that were previously unemployed.
According to cells online.com (n.d.), “Consumer demand quickly outstripped the cellular phone system's 1982 standards, by 1987, cellular phone subscribers exceeded one million, and the airways were crowded.” In 1982 cell phones were mostly owned by wealthy individuals or upper echelon business owners. They were considered a status symbol and since the power needed for them was demanding, they mostly were installed in cars they were not the cell phones of 2008. Over the last 25 years as mobile phones progressed they started to fall in pricing and size, original phones were large and expensive and out of the reach of most consumers. According to PCWorld a study suggested Shah (2007), “Cell phone ownership showed a dramatic increase globally, Wike said. In 2007, 81 percent of the U.S. population owned a cell phone, a 20 percent increase compared to 2002.” In a current figures according to MSNBC Sullivan (2008), “The cell phone industry, ... has some 137 million paying customers in the United States…” The growth for phone ownership is off the charts and along with the enormous sales of the units, technology has kept pace.
Americans are drawn to cell phones for many reasons, starting with the benefits of endless connection to friends and family. In the era of smart phones, instant and universal access to information, news, and games on these devices also draws users into a deeper engagement with their mobile devices. Cell phones are so popular now; that the number of adults who own mobile phones has often outpaced the percentage of adults who are online. In a survey new, it was found that 82% of American adults (ages 18 and older) now own cell phones, up from 65% when we took our first reading in late 2004. Some 60% of adults now send or receive text messages with their cell phones.
Texting and Driving Vs. Drinking and Driving COM155 21 Sept 2012 A beep signals from your phone. You go to grab it and take a look and see your friend would like to know where you want to go tonight. It only takes a minute for you to open your phone and respond to the text, but it also only takes a minute for your life to be over. Hundreds of teenagers and adults across the nation reach for their phones and decide to text while driving.
In this day and time you need a cell phone to survive. It’s the top way of communication besides cyber chatting, and guess what… you can do that on a cell phone as well. Cell phones now are meant for everybody. From the 80 year olds with arthritis who can’t move their fingers to use it to the little 2 year old babies who can’t talk to communicate on it. Like the advertising commercial with the little baby who can’t really talk, but he can advertise a cell phone commercial.
While I'm sure all these devices have good intent, they have ultimately taken focus away from the road and put more focus on other things like taking a picture a posting it on Facebook or stopping at the drive thru to eat while on the go. We have traded safety for convenience, and common since for smart phones. Yet, as obvious as these hazards have become we still continue to ignore the fact that one thousand people a year are killed in auto accidents due to cell phone use and one of those thousand could easily be me, my brother, my best friend, or someone else I love. Why do we do this? Most people just feel invincible, particularity young people.
Since the begging of the American deficit the American upper class has been constantly gaining ground and earning more and more dollars per capita every year ("Occupy Wall Street"). While on the other hand the middle class has been slowly losing ground on the upper class and the income per capita is slowly decreasing. If the trend continues there will only be an upper powerhouse class and a lower poor class. This angers a large amount of the population. Not only is it just money figures it’s the idea that these middle class students are going to college for several years on a promise that if they get that degree they will be able to live comfortably, and due to the current state of economy this is just not true.
Briana Curd Period 7 1/14/11 Ever thought that professional athletes salaries were a little to high ? Most people have always thought that long before this century, there has been a number of books and articles written on just on the salary of a professional athlete. Some may think that there is no way someone who just plays a sport should get paid that much. The athletes themselves think what they are getting paid is perfectly fine and that they should be receive that much amount of money because of what they do. The important issue about this whole salary of professional athletes is that they are over paid for just playing a sport for a few months.