People Dropping Landlines for Cells

Wired News reports that there’s a growing trend of people foregoing their landline phones in favor of cellphones.  I’m one of those people.  Well, mostly, at least.

For a while we didn’t have any sort of landline.  After I got a TiVo we needed a landline for it to grab listing updates and such.  Since I moved last weekend, we’re now waiting to see if TiVo continues to reset itself randomly like it started to do a few weeks ago (possibly due to overheating, we think).  If it all looks good, then I may well invest in a network adapter for it so that we can ditch our landline altogether.  We’ll see…

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My brother has no landline, and he’s in a more rural setting than I am.  However, I’m square in the center of two opposing company’s towers.  So even if I *can* get a signal from home, which is unlikely, it breaks and pauses as each tower passes the call back and forth to each other, in anticipation of me moving closer to one or the other. :-

okay, I have a spam killer for my e-mail, now how do I keep those annoying people from calling me on my cell when I’m in the public bathroom?
ringgggg!!!!
“Hello?”
“Hello! ,how are you doing.... Hey what is that echo I keep hearing?”

What the heck are you doing answering the phone in a public bathroom in the first place?! :devil:

And lo and behold… last night’s blackout makes me glad I still have my corded landline hanging around. Though admittedly, I don’t have a cell phone, my apartment is on cordless phones… no good with no power. I hate to think what cell users did without a landline backup.

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