C or M on email signature

[jgold47]

If this wasnt a true question, it might even be a DT, but:

Do you put your # as a c or m on your email and business card. For example, my blackberry is on my email signature as

(M)734.xxx.xxxx
not
(C)734.xxx.xxxx

My rationale is that I have a 'Mobile Device' and not just a cell phone. I came up with this years ago when you were likely to have a work blackberry and a personal cellphone, therefore needing to differentiate between the two. Since I just use the one device, I prefer the M, so people know I am not on my RAZR

 

[otc]

Well if you want to be proper, nobody has a cell phone anymore.

Cellular service is an outdated technology that has pretty much been completely replaced...just the name stuck around.

The proper letter would be M regardless of whether it is a blackberry or a vanilla phone.

 

[Parker]

I use my mobile exclusively now, so I don't use a modifier. But, I always preferred "mobile" to "cell".

 

[Risque]

I use the full term 'Mobile', as its company format, but would prefer just 'M'.

I guess it depends on who you're sending it to, as well - internationals or mostly countrymen.

 

[CunningSmeagol]

Dundee?

 

[Huntsman]

Originally Posted by jgold47

My rationale is that I have a 'Mobile Device' and not just a cell phone...I prefer the M, so people know I am not on my RAZR
I am laughing because that is so pretentious it is funny! Most business people are on smartphones now anyway. So why not just use an 'S'? The M makes me think it's your mother's number, or your midday number. Really, I use no appellation at all. ~ H

 

[Milpool]

I don't put either. My mobile is my personal phone, so I do not give out the number in emails and on business cards. I only list my office phone.

The people that have a need to know all of my numbers already have them.

 

[Blackhood]

M means mobile; it means you can contact me out of the office. Attachments will not be opened, and I may be unable to talk.

T means telephone. A land line to which texts, e-mails and MMS cannot be sent.

Cell only works in USA, if you had a German client would you ask him to call you on his Handi?

 

[Huntsman]

Originally Posted by Blackhood

M means mobile; it means you can contact me out of the office. Attachments will not be opened, and I may be unable to talk. T means telephone. A land line to which texts, e-mails and MMS cannot be sent. Cell only works in USA, if you had a German client would you ask him to call you on his Handi?
I don't mean to come off as overly critical, but if the distinction that M is superior to C because M represents a mobile device was universally-held, I doubt if it could be universally-held that "attachments will not be opened." It seems to me that you wish to encode far more information into that one letter than it can hold. I've never seen T used in business; perhaps that is UK usage I am unfamiliar with. In the States I only see V (for Voice) used in that stead. I realize that 'cell' is more of a US term, and there's nothing wrong with not using it for that reason, but your OP was debating the relative value of C versus M. I only found it....interesting....that the distinction of the type of device was so important (of course it is on some levels). ~ H

 

[ter1413]

Originally Posted by Huntsman

I am laughing because that is so pretentious it is funny!

Most business people are on smartphones now anyway. So why not just use an 'S'? The M makes me think it's your mother's number, or your midday number.

Really, I use no appellation at all.

~ H

+1

 

[unjung]

Mobile: EC, places England used to own except Canada.
Cell: North America.