AT&T reveals results of annual study on wireless courtesy and dating

For the fourth year, Cingular Wireless, part of the new AT&T, has commissioned a survey of adult cell phone users to determine how cell phones have affected their romantic lives. Some findings from the survey:

-- Thirty-eight percent of respondents said that a date answered his or her wireless phone in the midst of a great dinner conversation while 31 percent said they had done the same

-- Twenty-eight percent have used text messaging to avoid long conversations

-- Seventeen percent reported that a wireless phone has saved them from an uncomfortable date

-- Twelve percent have used text messaging news as a conversation starter with a date or mate

-- Eight percent of respondents say they have ended a relationship over rude/offensive wireless behavior

-- Five percent of respondents have called someone else he or she was interested in from a wireless phone while on a date and seven percent reported that their date had done so

-- Six percent have judged a prospective date by the phone they use

Also significant in the survey results, 59 percent of active daters use text messaging to communicate with their dates, while only 30 percent of those who are married.

[Press release]

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