Posted on 05/04/2017 7:43:53 AM PDT by posterchild
For the first time in history, federal researchers report that a majority of U.S. homes rely only on cellphones for a telephone connection, without a landline.
The number of cellphone-only households predictably has been climbing over the years, surpassing the households with both a landline and a mobile phone and now reaching almost 51 percent. And it's tracked by — of all agencies — the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The CDC's National Center for Health Statistics records all kinds of trends about the state of Americans' health. One of its surveys traces the decline of landlines and what kinds of health habits are common to mobile-only homes. (Hint: the drinking and smoking kind.)
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Haven’t had a landline since 2007.
Or a TV Antenna / cable connected to the Idiot Box.
FREEEEDOM!
I gave up the landline in 1998 when I could get internet over cable and cheaper phone service via cell.
I would never take one of their surveys anyway.
Haven’t had a landline since 2007.
Their cell service sucks, too (10 years on that one, too). Could hardly get a signal. Went to Verizon and service is great. Who needs a landline?
The not so important reason....better sound quality.
During several recent wide-spread severe weather events we lost power, cable and cell phone service for prolonged periods. Land line phones worked throughout. I normally use a cordless, but keep an old cord phone for just such events.
“For the first time in history,”
How long is that? About 125 years?
I still have a 25 inch CRT tv which I watch about 3 hours / month. Haven’t bothered with TV news since around Nov 2001 when 9/11 coverage waned and I dreaded a return to ‘gary condit’ type news again where they beat the snot out of some salacious topic with no national/world impact.
I do kinda miss that modem connect tone though... nostalgically.
Waiting for a “free” 1 megabyte exe file to download from GEnie over an acoustic coupler, not so much.
We maintain a land line, my wife and her sister live in areas that have poor cell service. They talk twice a week.
Part of the reason for landlines being dropped is the sleazy telephone companies and fraudulent billing tactics. Look at the bill and the 75% taxation.
Personally I don’t want 911 to know where I am.
When you are paying a $250 cellphone bill, you don’t need a landline.
We have been without one for over 5 years.
But I have a 14 boy and 10 year old girl, and they rarely answer their phone. They are not glued to their phones, YET.
Bell Labs spent decades developing a high reliability system for phone calls. Now “AT&T” wanhts to kill off land lines.
How, exactly, does taxation make the telephone company sleazy?
I recall some dorm neighbors coming by to my dorm to marvel at my 1200 baud modem my on campus job loaned me (along with a DEC rainbow 100) to monitor a vax II from my room late at night.;)
I use my landline for my business phone. Otherwise I probably wouldn’t keep it.
Is the $250 for multiple phones? I pay $30/month with republic wireless for one line. I want to upgrade my phone but all of their new phones are more suitable for VESA mounting on a wall and watching videos than for fitting in a pocket.
” have a landline for two reasons...one important,the other no so important.The important one...in case I have to call 911 urgently.Police...fire...ambulance...I want the dispatcher to know *exactly* where I am in case I’m unable to tell him.”
GPS is amazing. Even in my house it shows which room my phone is in!
“The not so important reason....better sound quality.”
Solved with a good wifi system!
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