Young, Poor Prefer Cells to Landlines

AP ^ | 12-10-2007 | ALAN FRAM

[DBrow]

http://sigillu.wordpress.com/category/english/cellular-phone/

[VanShuyten]

We have the same problem in having the DSL bundled with the landline phone, plus we need a landline for our fax. We just dropped down to the cheapest service ($5/mo + 10 cents/call) and cancelled the long distance. We use the 101 numbers whenever we need to make a landline domestic or foreign long distance call. The landline costs us about $15/month - $5/months for the service and $10/month for the TAXES!

[RockinRight]

Wow. I could only aspire to be as paranoid as you.

[Graybeard58]

the internet service provided by the cable company sucks, but the DSL service provided by the phone company is reliable.

I had the opposite experience with DSL/Cable.

[SweetCaroline]

Thanks for the link, I just did and it looks like most of it is bogus. Oh well.....sigh

[Reeses]

the police might be able to get a list of who was within the range of a tower here, but that would only be two or three hundred thousand people.

Cell towers are spaced 1/4 mile apart in a city, 1 to 2 miles apart in the suburbs. By measuring your cell phone's periodic ping strength from 3 different towers your location can be narrowed down to a few feet. This does not require any GPS technology in your cell phone. The data is recorded by computers and stored in databases that are very easy to query. Cell phone tracking history has already been used to solve many crimes and more commonly to check people's alibis out. Who you call and how often forms a pattern that can be used to find you even if you switch phones. Disk space is so cheap now that you should assume some government somewhere records and archives all your conversations. They can't currently use the recordings without a court order but once they get that court order they could go 20 years back into your history. This level of spying is not yet common but is technically possible and its use growing all the time. The spying will really bloom under a socialist dictator's presidency.

[wally_bert]

I have a landline for the fax machine. Most of the time I send one or two out and sometime get one or two a month. I would be interested in an alternative. I could never get a fax modem to cooperate. I am on broadband Time Warner/Earthlink and it works pretty well.

I have carried a cell since 1998 or so and almost never used a land line in any of my previous residences.

[PetroniusMaximus]

“Now, if someone would just come up with a way to send electric energy through the air...”

The homeless could stand below the energy path and catch freshly cooked birds.

[Cailleach]

last time I was around when his “little friend” (as I call him) called, hubby said “speak English or go home!” When he got off the phone I corrected him saying that his “or” should have been an “and!” :P