Pros and Cons of Cell Phones

Telephone is one the biggest invention of modern science that has eased the life of common people. Further, the use of wireless radio technologies in mobile phones entirely changed the mode of voice and text communication. The advantages of telephones are given below:

• Indispensable part of life: It was the invention of telephone which really opened the way for communication revolution. Nowadays it has become an indispensable part of commercial, industrial and domestic life.
• Communication with distant person: People can communicate to distant people over telephone. For example, a person in India can talk with another person in the United Kingdom over telephone.
• Wireless communication: The invention of mobile phones is of vital importance. It helps the transmission of voice using wireless technologies.
• Saves time and energy: A telephone serves us like an honest servant in all the fields. It saves our valuable time and energy to great extent.
• Business deals over telephone: A telephone has got a great advantage to a businessman, or to a doctor. A businessman can make business deals on telephone. The entire sale and purchase can be done on the telephone.
• Security: In big cities a telephone has its own utility in terms of safety and security. You may call police if there is some need for them.
• Improved parents-teachers-student relationship: If there is a telephone in the school, students can talk to the Principal or teachers to get any information. Messages to distant places can be conveyed in no time through calls, sms, etc. If the telephone is in at parents’s house, the principal or teachers find it easy to contact the parents, and the parents can take information from the teachers about their children.
• Easy travelling: Railway booking, calling a taxi from the stand-all can be done on the telephone. You can also download mobile applications of various taxi-operator and book a taxi from within the application. You will need a smartphone and internet connection for this.
• High-speed internet: Most of the smartphones are enabled with high-speed internet features. Smartphones with internet connections enable users to browse websites, play videos and send emails.
• Healthy relationships: Telephone encourages regular voice-communication between friends. It helps maintain healthy relationships with friends.
• Low cost: The cost of Voice-communication over telephone and mobile-phones has reduced significantly in the last few years. Thus, even common people can make full use of tele-communication technology.
• Telephone banking: People can make banking transactions over telephone. They can send and receive funds from the comfort of their home or office. Customers can also request for bank statement and cheque-book by calling the support team of the bank.
• Telephone interviews: Many large and small companies prefer to conduct the initial interview over telephone. The interviewer asks relevant questions and if the answers are satisfactory, the candidate is further invited for the final interview.
• Telephone marketing: One of the biggest advantage of telephone can be seen in the field of marketing. Companies communicate information about new products to their customers. However, companies resorting to telemarketing for promoting products should never make unsolicited calls.

Disadvantages

The disadvantages of telephone are given below:

1. Destroys face-to-face communication.
2. Some of the neighbours are so frank and free that they give your number to their relatives and friends. If you fail to call the neighbour at an odd hour when the phone rings for him, he will become angry and sweetness of neighborhood would change into bitterness. They fail to think of your comfort.
3. When we are forced to attend too many calls over telephone, then our peace is disturbed.
4. People wastes much of their time over useless gossip over the telephone or mobile devices.People become addicted to it.
5. Telephone is often misused by tele-marketers. Very often, telemarketers makes unsolicited calls and disturbs people during office hours.

Conclusion

In this way we can easily perceive the vital interference of a telephone and mobile phones in our life. Sometimes it looks like a difficult thing to manage. On the other time it helps us in a very difficult time. Its disadvantages are few and small but its advantages and benefits are many.