Mobile phone decorum - good manners

Some people find the use of mobile phone is a public place annoying.

an urban myth devaloped that most mobile phone convos taking place where just yuppys having imaginary convos to impress people nearby. Many comedians made jokes about people talking loudly into their mobile phone, or carrying very obvious and visible phones. Now the phones are more common this urban myth has lost favour.

The use of a mobile phone is prohibited in some rail carriages. Mobile phone etiquette has become an important issue with mobiles ringing at funerals, weddings, cinemas, and plays.

Users often speak at increased volume to has lead to places like book shops, libraries, movie theatres, doctors' offices, and houses of worship posting signs prohibiting the mobile phones, and in some places installing signal jamming equipment to prevent usage. Although in many nations, e.g., the US, such equipment is currently illegal. Transportation providers, particularly those involving long distance services, often offer a quiet car where phone use is prohibited, like designated non-smoking cars in the past. Mobile phone use on aircraft is also prohibited, because of concerns of possible interference with aircraft radio communications, although this has been relaxed recentely.

Actor Spacey attacked audiences who allow their mobile phones to ring during theatre performances, saying visitors should learn to behave.

In 2003 Cinema owners in Dublin have come under fire for stopping customers from receiving calls on their mobiles in the middle of a movie.

In France the government allowed laws for Mobile phone signals to be jammed in French cinemas and theatres to prevent the devices disturbing the audience.
The French government has backed a move to install equipment to block signals in cinemas, concert halls and theatres.

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