One Number
from the call-the-person,-not-the-place dept
Look through your personal address book and see how many of
your contacts have multiple numbers. You might have up to
three numbers for each contact, home, work, and mobile. When
calling your frequent contacts, you might call their work or
home number first, but if they aren’t there, maybe you try
the mobile number. Since you are trying to reach the person,
not the place, you might as well just call their mobile
number first and get it over with. Slowly, the trend of
having only number and one phone is growing.
Dropping mobile phone charges are making it feasible to ditch the landline completely.
It’s estimated that about 3 percent of wireless subscribers
use their mobile phones as their only phone. The Yankee
Group thinks this number could jump to 5 to 10 percent over
the next five years. Ironically when you go in to buy new
wireless service, many operators require a landline contact
number to track you down in case you don’t pay your bill.
Comments on “One Number”
It works great for me
I starting using my cell phone as my only phone late last year. It has worked great so far. I pay $30/month and have never gone over the allowed minutes.
I couldn’t have done this last year at this time because we didn’t have cable internet access in my town. I had to have a land line because I needed DSL. Since we now have RoadRunner in my town, I can live without having to pay Verizon a ridiculous amount each month.