Posted on 12/17/2008 2:50:46 PM PST by dynachrome
Nearly one-fifth of all U-S homes (18%) have cut the land line connection and use only a cell phone for their communication. That is a big increase from the seven percent using only a cell phone in 2005. How about you - Do you plan to dump the land line? And when?
No - I'll stay with Alexander Graham Bell's wired version.
Yes - Within the next six months.
Yes - Within the next year.
Yes - But I'm not sure when.
Select your option and vote
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Where’s the “I’m already gone” selection?
There will come a day when only rich people have wired phones in their houses.
You’re one of the 13%. I always forget to either turn my cellphone on or let the battery run down.
I just need the bell pull to summon the servants. heaven forbid I should have to dial a phone myself!
;)
No land line here.
My wife and I discussed this yesterday. We can’t get DSL. We both use cells. Why keep the landline.
Yes, I got that, but I think it would exceed 13%.
It's KNBR. They're like the number 3 conservative talk station in the Bay Area (and a good example of what happens to a Clear Channel station's ratings when Rush and Hannity are on another station.) KNBR probably couldn't afford the additional option. :o)
“exceed 13%.”
Probably will pretty fast. Pay as you go or Iphone/blackberry do it all units.
I dumped my last landline over a year ago. I now have only Vonage, which I’ve had since 2003, and cell.
I had added a cable line (Charter), but it seems I was paying for a direct line from telemarketers, credit collectors, and “Who dis? Lemme talk to Mashika” at 2.40 AM.
I will say, the cable line was very reliable. It never went off, whereas with Vonage, when my internet goes out, so does my phone. Still, Vonage offers many more features for a lesser price.
My wife and I made the jump over a year ago. Our SIL/BIL made the jump earlier this year. Our son hasn't had a land line for a long time.
Sure, I sometimes leave the phone off, or it's in some room I'm not in, and the battery runs down weekly if not more often. But I don't miss the extra bill, and don't get that many calls now anyway. And I sure don't miss the solicitations. I'll take this not-so-perfect situation any day.
Reliability, for starters. A lot of people cannot use cell phones in their homes, due to the construction techniques used.
While we're at it, for flat fees, my lady and I get unlimited long distance from our landline phone. She'd blow through any plans monthly minutes in a week.
And with all the time she spends on the darn thing, she's getting a lot less radiation to her brain, she gets plenty from the cell phone usage that she already does. Any time I'm driving on the weekend, she uses the "free" minutes to catch up with all her girlfriends.
Besides, there's just the quality factor. My home phone is not only far more comfortable to use, it's call quality is superior to any cell phone I've ever used.
We got rid of the land line a year and a half ago. Haven’t missed it at all. It got to the point that the only people that ever called on it were telemarketers.
What’s a land line? We just lost power for 6 days. My iPhone was my lifeline. Email, Internet, phone and games on one device. I don’t take my computer with me anymore when I travel.
Same here. Another reason is that it's more resistant to interrupton than cell phones if things gets bad.
I have cells & 2 land lines. One is for my business & I can’t get rid of that. I won’t get rid of my cells or my land lines. Well, I will keep them as long as I can afford them & if I can’t the cells are going first.
me too... DSL requires a landline for me too.
Otherwise, it would be gone!
Polly
Been completely wireless for two years...........
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