The very disappearance of phone booths -- those private cells for the whisperings of lovers and conspirators -- serves the mentality of crowds, where ubiquitously public cell phones announce confidential assignations to the teeming streets.
But most of the numbers were private cell phones for campaign leaders, politicians, lobbyists and journalists.
The honeycomb structure of each private cell takes in loads of natural light, as photovoltaic glass panels preserve solar energy.
This week, the company said it would buy private cell phone tower owner Mountain Union Telecom for $309 million.
Instead of posting your private cell number to the web, or sharing it with others you've only just met, for example, Burner lets you set up virtual phone numbers that work with your mobile device so you can still call and text without giving up your privacy.
We watched children play marbles in the street, checked out the two tiny grocery stores, strolled out on the public pier, and called home at the telephone office, the only telephone in town except for a few private cell phones.
There is the "cooking with mob chiefs in the private prison cell" scene.
Now moviegoing — expensive and rare — is undertaken with a devotional rigor, and the casual side of watching movies is found mainly in private (cell phones on trains).
Since the agreement in June, Mr. Ridgway had been living in a private cell above detectives' offices, leading them to sites around King County where he believed the bodies of his victims to be.
Oscar (Oscar Nunez) talks briefly to Sen. Lipton about animal rights, and Lipton (who Oscar suspects is gay) gives Oscar his private cell phone number, asking Oscar to call him in the evening to discuss issues further.
