One of the few advantages of poverty is that you are not obliged to carry these beastly little bits of electronic tagging around with you. If I were about to drive through the Australian outback or do something really exciting like that, I might feel the need for one. Now that young people over the age of thirteen always have them, less people seem to have time to vandalise public telephones. The happy offspin of all this, is that more public telephones, than I have ever known, actually work. (I can afford them too).
Unfortunately, in only about two or three years, my daughter will need one, otherwise she will be humbled in front of her classmates -and she does not deserve that.
I like to feel I am still just as important as everyone else, even though I am most unlikey to ever own one.