[O.C. - Old Cracker]

Hogwash. If you can't get through due to weak signal strength, what do you do? You move.

How ever did we survive making emergency phone calls from land lines? You do remember when the only phone access was from hardwired lines, don't you? It boggles the mind.

[monday]

"How ever did we survive making emergency phone calls from land lines? You do remember when the only phone access was from hardwired lines, don't you?"

We live differently now. Doctors and other emergency personnel no longer sit next to a hard wired phone when on duty. They are out and about.

As for your other question, no. Almost one quarter of the earths population has cell phones now. They are coming very close to outnumbering land lines. In developing countries new subscribers for cell phones far out number new subscribers for land lines. Time to join the rest of us in the 21 century O.C.

[monday]

"How ever did we survive making emergency phone calls from land lines?"

PS. many didn't survive. People in auto wrecks and others who have accidents far from land lines owe their lives to cell phones and the speed at which they can summon help.