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We live in an age where peace and quiet often seems hard to find. Wherever we go there seem to be people chattering on mobile telephones, and nowhere seems sacrosanct any more from these often overpowering conversations.
Train journeys up to town used to be times when I read a book, but this is usually not possible these days due to folk answering or making phone calls which are almost always banal and non-urgent. And I reacted with horror to the idea that some airlines now permit folk to use their own mobiles in flight though, fortunately, it is a rare thing for me to fly these days.
Perhaps we live in an age when the use of fixed telephones are being replaced by the mobiles, and there is much good in that particularly when people can be contacted when they are out and about. But I do believe there are limits and trains, museums, churches and other places that should be quiet ought to be off-limits.
But at least one group of people have risen to stop mobile phones from disturbing them during what should be quiet times. It is a mosque in Kenya which installed a device to block the mobile phone signals that so often disrupted services there.
There should be more of these devices around in my view. Restoring a little bit of peace and quiet in the day.
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We live in an age where peace and quiet often seems hard to find. Wherever we go there seem to be people chattering on mobile telephones, and nowhere seems sacrosanct any more from these often overpowering conversations.
Train journeys up to town used to be times when I read a book, but this is usually not possible these days due to folk answering or making phone calls which are almost always banal and non-urgent. And I reacted with horror to the idea that some airlines now permit folk to use their own mobiles in flight though, fortunately, it is a rare thing for me to fly these days.
Perhaps we live in an age when the use of fixed telephones are being replaced by the mobiles, and there is much good in that particularly when people can be contacted when they are out and about. But I do believe there are limits and trains, museums, churches and other places that should be quiet ought to be off-limits.
But at least one group of people have risen to stop mobile phones from disturbing them during what should be quiet times. It is a mosque in Kenya which installed a device to block the mobile phone signals that so often disrupted services there.
There should be more of these devices around in my view. Restoring a little bit of peace and quiet in the day.
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