CELLULAR'S SILENT TREATMENT

摘要

Somewhere, the gods of irony are smiling. Providers of cellular phone services have done a bang-up job enticing customers with their go anywhere, say anything vision of personal communication. So much so that they now face the real prospect of market backlash from consumers who've run out of patience with boorish cell phone users who think nothing of turning any public space into their own personal chat room. To prevent a public relations nightmare, many cellular providers are now encouraging their subscribers to use the "off switch on their phones more often.