A Colorado group is looking to curb the sales of cellphones to children under 13 years old.

The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) announced its proposal to require airlines and ticket agents to disclose in advance to consumers if the carrier operating their flight allows passengers to make voice calls using mobile wireless devices.

To eliminate contraband cellphone use within a facility, such as a prison, this solution enables security personnel to tell within seconds if someone within the facility has a phone turned on.

For cell phone users, and that includes most everyone these days, there are myriad choices in plans beyond the hundreds of phones themselves. Anytime minutes. Off-peak minutes. Domestic roaming charges. International roaming charges. Minutes overage fees. Text messaging plans. Data plans. Limits and slowdowns on data plans.

A new survey from Norton by Symantec reveals that 36 percent of consumers in the U.S. have fallen victim to cell phone loss or theft.