What's Your Cell Phone Usage like

[1-Old-Man]

I guess all of us with a cell phone have a pretty good idea of how many minutes we use the thing. I am a very infrequent user myself, but I keep my private phone none the less. What's your usage like, just a guess, nothing real specific?

7 votes, 0 passes | Time left: Unlimited
	50 minutes per month or less
	5 (71%)
	51 to 100 minutes per month
	0 (0%)
	101 to 300 minutes per month
	0 (0%)
	301 to 600 minutes per month
	1 (14%)
	601 to 1,000 minutes per month
	1 (14%)
	Even more than that
	0 (0%)
	Way more than that
	0 (0%)
	42
	0 (0%)
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[bigwillq]

1. 300-600 minutes

I text more than I call, though.

[1-Old-Man]

4. We're way different then

Of course I'm an old fart and that has a lot to do with it I suppose but I use my phone way less than 50 minutes a month, more like 15~20 at the most, and I think I may have sent 3 text messanges and maybe the same number of photographs in my life.

I know, I'm a @$%^ing Ludite, I just can't help it.

[silverweb]

2. Less than 200 min/mo.

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]Usually just family. Otherwise, I hate talking on the phone.

[bike man]

3. I take it out of the holder on the first of every month for charging. Other than that, it

isn't even turned on.

[Cooley Hurd]

5. Voice? Virtually nothing. Data?

Thru the ROOF!

[longship]

6. Less than six calls per week, mostly short.

Then, there's my INet usage, which is 100% from my iPhone.

[Blue_In_AK]

7. I think last month we used 12 minutes.

A lot of expense for a little security when we're out on the road.

Being retired, we're by our land line almost all the time.

[RebelOne]

8. I hardly ever use my cell phone, usually only for emergencies.

But we had some bad storms here in Georgia last week and my power was knocked out for 2 days. So my cell phone was used frequently.

[HappyMe]

9. I rarely use it.

I have a dumb phone, so I don't check email. I hardly ever check my email on the computer.

I use it to text with my sons once in awhile.

[LeftInTX]

10. When my son first moved to NY, I used my cell phone

Now if he wants to talk to me he calls my land line. Other than that, I rarely use my cell phone.

My husband on the other hand has always got his phone in hand along with my kids. I'm sure they're at the high end of usage. They all have IPhones with internet access. They pretty much are connected at the hip to their phones.

No need for any of them to wear a watch!

[jberryhill]

11. "No need for any of them to wear a watch!"

I take exception to that. I have two wired sons who were telling me the same thing. I gave them a challenge. I got them each a nice analog dial watch and asked them to just wear it every day for a month.

A phone tells you the time when you look at it to see what time it is.

An analog watch gives you a sense of the passage of time, and consequently you better manage your time.

After a month, I asked them if they wanted to give up their watches and neither of them will do it.

Which puts me in kind of a predicament, because each of the watches I bought them were watches I'd had my eye on for myself.

[Cal Carpenter]

16. Huh, I haven't worn a watch in a million years

I had a tendency to break them or lose them and decided I wasn't a watch person by age 15 or so. I function really well without it in terms of being 'on time' and now, in the cell phone era, I can always check the time if I really need to.

But - despite being punctual I don't think time management is my specialty. I am almost tempted to buy a watch and test your theory.... intriguing! LOL

[Egalitarian Thug]

12. You made me realize I have no idea how much time I use.

I have an unlimited plan so I never even check.

But 42 is the answer to the question of life, the universe, and everything, so...

[tech3149]

13. I haven't used a cell phone since I quit working in 2002

That goddamned thing was surgically attached to me. I went through headphones like a bag of chips. I couldn't refuse calls, didn't matter where I was or what I was doing. Customers, other technicians, the "boss" any hour of the day. I could deal with it up to a point but those 3;00 AM calls that go on for hours to support another tech on an emergency call probably did a lot to make me single.
I could go on till next week but I think these few words should be enough to express my opinion to anyone open to my perspective.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

14. My office is too small to bother with a real phone system,

I hit about 12 to 15 hours a month.

[Puzzledtraveller]

15. Can't afford air time

only texts, and I'm a public employee, overpaid my ass.

[Earth_First]

17. I'm probably in the 250/300 range...

However I am making several calls per day often to two crews in the field, plus the office.

My social use is much less, and generally texting.

I hate talking on the phone, unfortunately a necessary evil.