Yes, and they know that they admitted at the time they implemented the phone in hand ban while driving. But the argument was that they could not detect someone calling hands-free reliable, they might as well be singing along with some music or just cursing on the other people in traffic. So enforcement was not realistic so they left that alone. But you can rest assured that as soon as they can do that reliable they'll start writing fines for hands free phone calls, hell if you give em the opportunity they'll even ban talking to passengers in your car.