Your company is the exception rather than the rule in my experience, and of course your company is in the right, I have to confess I was pretty disgusted at some of the MoD's security.
Qinetiq and Atlas' employees have no compunction at all in using their phones in restricted areas, let alone military personel. It's pretty much a joke in the places i've worked.
What kind of place doesn't allow phones, even left in the car?
Pretty much every business and organization uses cel phones these days; what kind of company is paranoid enough to ban them that completely? Any site doing classified work will restrict cell phones. Camera phones are prohibited, and most privately owned phones without cameras still can't be taken into restricted areas (which sometimes will include the parking lot). Slightly off topic, but I'm serving with the British Army, and regularly work in a facility where you have to be SC cleared to even enter the building, in the labs I work in you have to be DV cleared (top-secret) and though there is signs saying no mobile phones everywhere, people are always wandering around on their phones. Camera phones, PDAs, you name it people use them, so you're not strictly correct there.
And as a side note, you try telling a brigadier he's not allowed to talk on his mobile, or take photos of the latest tech-toys... rather you than me =)
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Your company is the exception rather than the rule in my experience, and of course your company is in the right, I have to confess I was pretty disgusted at some of the MoD's security. Qinetiq and Atlas' employees have no compunction at all in using their phones in restricted areas, let alone military personel. It's pretty much a joke in the places i've worked.