People Ditching Landlines?
from the not-a-huge-number dept
Three years ago I experimented with using a mobile phone as my only phone line. That lasted a few months until I got sick of all the dropped calls and random areas in my own house where the mobile phone wouldn’t work. It’s a popular story that appears every few months, though. Are people ditching their landlines for cell phone only communications? I certainly have a number of friends who only use their cell. A lot more are “borderline” cases. They have a landline, but they almost never use it. There is a quote in the article, though, saying “People who replace their home phone don’t use the phone much”, which I don’t think is true. If anything, the people I know who use only mobile phones use them quite often.
Comments on “People Ditching Landlines?”
True
I have a friend that canceled his normal phone and got a cell plan for about $35 a month. Saves him a good bit of money. Cheaper for all the calls he makes to his GF :).
One number
I have a landline that I use as a back up and for DSL. But basically I like having one number and vmail that’s always with me anywhere in the world. I give the landline number to potential telemarketer sources and then put all calls w/o caller ID directly into vmail. What I would love though is one bill for all this stuff. Too bad the wireless guys spun off from their landline counterparts.
mobile bills
I use both a land line and a mobile phone. My mobile phone bill has been astronomical since I began using it almost exclusively (the land line was mostly reserved for Internet dial up).
I think in my case, a mobile phone should only be used when I’m actually mobile (away from home or office), I’m sure my future bills will prove this to be true.