The rising din of cell phones
[Times photo: James Borchuck]
Cell phones ringing at restaurants, performances and other inappropriate places. It's a problem that's likely to get worse as cell phone use increases. With a new user signing up for service every two seconds, more than 1.26-billion people around the world will have wireless phones by 2005, some experts predict.
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