Big 4 Mobile Carriers Target Texting While Driving
The country's four biggest cellphone companies are set to begin their first joint advertising campaign against texting while driving.
The country's four biggest cellphone companies are set to begin their first joint advertising campaign against texting while driving.
Let us count the ways AT&T his gotten in hot water lately: Net neutrality advocates are filing complaints over its iPhone FaceTime policy; its profits are off; and it's overcharging its customers. And then there was that noble attempt to remind people not to text while driving ...
Distracted driving has been a growing problem since cellphones came into wide use. Now, new research shows that among the young, the proliferation of mobile devices and the explosion of apps they have spawned have made the problem much worse.
A new study has found an alarming number of young drivers still text while driving: 63% of drivers under the age of 30 reported using a handheld phone while driving in the past 30 days, and 30% of them texted while driving during the same period.






