[martin_fierro]

1. Landline phones: Walk into any college dorm room and ask to use a landline. You'll be met with blank stares. With cell-phone technology continually evolving, it seems that these days only a handful of people are still moving into a new house and having the landline turned on

Not if you live in the mountains like moi. Cell phone signals can be sketchy, and teh Intarweb cable frequently is down during heavy winds/rain.

Agree, some effete metrosexual wrote this.

[Tijeras_Slim]

No cell phone coverage in Yrrisari.

[Richard Kimball]

I was reading a couple of years ago that the University of Colorado lost a lot of money on land lines. Over a ten year period they went from having about ninety percent of the students getting a land line in their dorm room (only the poorest didn't get a land line) to about fifteen percent getting one (only the poorest got a land line because they didn't have cell phones.) Anyway, the university had been buying a batch of land line connections from the phone company and reselling them to students for a profit. They turned around one year and found out they had bought about five times as many land lines as they could sell.

Teaching college students, probably 95 percent of mine have a cell phone. Maybe one in twenty puts down a land line as their connection, and that's usually one of their parent's phones.