Drop the mobile to banish call drops

First the bad news: before the situation with mobile call drops gets better, it will get worse. The good news: you don’t need to suffer the ignominy of being left hanging mid-call even during this intervening period of doom. How? Is there a new app that bypasses the lack of network? Has there been a breakthrough in mobile tower portability? Nope. What we suggest is far more disruptive. Just stop using mobile phones. Ergo, no more calls to drop.

Yes, this sounds, at best, dire. And, at worst, ridiculous. But let us not forget that crises of such a magnitude have been pushed into history’s dustbin by what seemed at that time to be a great sacrifice but what can now be seen as a break in habit. Take passenger airships. Those whale-like modes of aerial travel were once all the rage, sought out by the rich to enjoy calm, noiseless flights. With the crash of the German airship Hindenburg — which, incidentally, burst into flames after trying to dock against a mooring mast that suspiciously looked like modern mobile tower — there was an option: improve airship safety, or junk airships altogether. The second option was chosen. While feeling the pain of mobile operators, might we suggest that we learn to live without the cellphone the way we have learnt to live without the airship. Or without heeding editorial advice, for that matter.