Dubious study tries to allege 1 in 7 cellphones faulty

Now, there are dubious studies and there are
dubious studies but this — this is one dubious study. The UK's Which? magazine (The one on first base...) surveyed 5000 mobile customers, found 1 in 7 of them to have had very vaguely specified "problems" with their cellphones, and extrapolated the results to suggest that 2 million out of 18 million cellphones sold in the UK last year could have been faulty. But it gets even better when mobile operators with not even thinly veiled agendas get on board to defend themselves, such as video phone operator 3 (vying for Which?
magazine for this year's coveted "Worst Business Name Evar" title) who contends that it's unfair to compare 3G
technology, "which is complex and new," to GSM technology. Right, whatevs — just answer the question: does your gear work, or not?

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