You make the call.(EDITOR'S NOTE)(Editorial)

If television advertising is any indicator of societal trends, then the humble phone has truly inherited the earth. Any given hour in front of the tube brings a blizzard of ads for cell phones, cell plans, cell accessories, and everything related. The $800-billion-a-year U.S. telecommunications industry wants you--and it seems to be getting you.

As a result, there's no shortage of reporting and analysis on the subject of telecom. We're happy to leave the bulk of it for others, but once a year we do like to zero in on a couple of areas of the telecom/telephony bonanza.