“Some pollsters have tried to contact me on my cell phone (at least 3 times) and Ive refused to answer. I know because the caller ID or text message they identify themselves. It makes me wonder how many times this has happened with others.”
I will absolutely not answer my cell phone at all if the # is unfamiliar. If it is important, they will leave a message. THEN, I put that number into my contact list. Sad, but spammers have rendered a normal telephone function unusable.
I gave up on having a land line years ago because it occurred to me that I was paying $30-$40 a month to have spammers interrupt my evenings. We have a “home” phone system that Bluetooths to our cell phones.
I have some aversions to this because don’t think for a second that your cell phones will work in a public emergency. The PSTN (public switched telephone network) was designed and built at great, government-subsidized expense to survive a limited nuclear war. Cell is better that it was in the 90’s but I don’t think that it has “surge capacity” or sufficient redundancy.
Cellphones were useless on 9/11.