I will fight to keep the “landline” until my cold hands are incinerated (due to lack of burial space, right?). Malthus carries on forward to doom because we humans are so ignorantly unbelieving.
Let me tell you why: Here in the BIG EMPTY as I call this area of PA without any major roads south of I-80, NE of Pittsburgh, W of Harrisburg, and N of Cumberland (excluding the interstate corridors) there is little to NO cell phone service for the poor, including me, who cannot afford the 4 and 5G phones. No Verizon service internet that is reliable...up and download speeds of 0.79 MBPS and 0.22 MBPS, for example, on 4/15/18. .
I am physically impaired and when the day comes I need an ambulance, I must have telephone service to call one. I have a land line and it costs almost $95/mos. Tat is almost 10% of my income. Geez.
I’ve been through the Big Empty—Lewisburg, Hughesville, Dushore, Towanda, etc. Beautiful country, and probably politically “red.”
I live way out in the country. I have to go half a mile from home to get a cell phone signal. Landline is not a dinosaur yet.