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Ditching Landlines In Middle America
from the who-needs-wires? dept
There have been plenty of stories before about people (mostly young people) ditching their landlines in exchange for mobile phones. These stories always seem to focus on some uber-geeks in Silicon Valley. However, now that it's reaching Des Moines, Iowa, I think it's becoming a trend. I certainly know more and more people who only use a mobile phone. I have no idea what the landline phone numbers are for most of my friends who have both. It seems clear that more and more people are discovering that they simply don't need a landline.
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Why I did...
Cellular long distance fees are generally lower, if not free for those of us who only use our wireless long distance minutes at certain times of day.
On top of that, the locale I live in has a nasty local tax of at least $8/month on local phone service. I'll be damned if they are going to tax my phone bill for a county that needs money to pay for and endless list of social services for an exploding population of illegal immigrants.
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The ONLY rub
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static phone number
I would like to see vibrating batteries come standard on all phones--I think most people will use them & turn the ringers off in quiet public places, but they're too cheap to fork over extra cash for one.
steve
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