Comments on: CTIA and Six Providers Urge the Senate to Put an End to Discriminatory Taxation of Wireless Service and Digital Goods

Comments on: CTIA and Six Providers Urge the Senate to Put an End to Discriminatory Taxation of Wireless Service and Digital Goods http://blog.ctia.org/2012/04/17/end-discriminatory-taxation/ The trade association representing the wireless ecosystem. Wed, 15 May 2013 19:03:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Set271 http://blog.ctia.org/2012/04/17/end-discriminatory-taxation/#comment-28411 Set271 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:02:44 +0000 http://blog.ctia.org/?p=4879#comment-28411 What's the matter? Providing the device which is causing the downfall and dumbing-down of society isn't enough? Do you really think users, now addicted to the instant satisfaction purloined on their psyche, care how much more it costs to get their opinions into cyberspace? Especially when it's approximately seven cents on the dollar!? The text-verse plays on womens' vanity, bet you just love that! The cell-phone aspect itself was embraced by women because we all know how much women love the telephone. But, you knew that already. What most people don't realize, of which you've steered them from knowing, is how much intrusion the 'smartphones' are on normal human activity and interaction ...let alone the intrusion on other businesses. Is one business going to compensate another for steering/stealing customers right out from under their own venues when their cellphones attack their customers from outside with adverts designed to do just that. Businesses like the movie theaters, losing patronage because their not allowed to block cellphone signals to ignorant and rude people that make and receive calls and text during a movie. Those little screens lighting up during the movie draw your eyes from the big screen, ruining the movie experience. Businesses like the restaurants, losing patronage because their not allowed to block cellphone signals to ignorant and rude people that make and receive calls at their table and talking as if everyone in the restaurant should here their story. Where's the compensation for those businesses? Where's the compensation for those patrons? It shouldn't be the businesses affected by the cellphone usage to apologize and give out refund tickets or free deserts. It is the onus of the licensees to compensate the proprietors of the businesses affected and allow blocking of cellphone signals in certain venues. It's bad enough that cellphones are creating a society that can't think for itself and won't be happy unless instantly satisfied with advertisements controlling their every move to purchase things they really don't need. Allow the rest of us, not yet brain washed into accepting the whispering demon in our ear, live our lives in peace and quiet where warranted. Cellphones were a great idea for peace of mind in emergencies. But, don't let Madison Ave control your life people, get off the phone and; Drive, Watch the movie, Eat your meal, Talk face-to-face with family and friends....Live.

And, yes, I do have a cellphone which I seldom need to use because I like to talk face to face with family and friends. It is a cheap prepaid phone,$15, which costs very little to maintain service...about $20 every three months with a lot of minutes carried on since purchase.

It isn't the taxes! Taxes support the country! It's the control the cellphone companies have over our citizens'!

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