Death of the telephone

Hey Carl...how's it going? We have a wired system that we use for our home-phone and Internet DSL. It has a wireless extension that we keep in the kitchen, but we hardly use it. Most of the time, it's just for using outside when we want to sit and relax in the yard. My girlfriend also has two cell phones. She takes one, and I take the other whenever we go out shopping, etc. That way, if we decide to go off and check out stuff on our own, we can still contact the other to come and have a look see at what we've found, or let either one know that it's time one of us wants to leave. But you're right. Cell phones are taking over. Why just last week, we watched a program on T.V. and the guy in it was using an old candle-stick type phone. We thought is was pretty wild, and both reflected on how far technology has come. By the way (and not really part of this discussion) I'm glad to see that Tony is safely home again. cdrxo

Hi! Yeah I think that the traditional telephones are dwindling out of existence. But they are the fastest way to call tons of people in just one sitting. Cellphones and other portable communication devices are nice also since they give that spontaneity but the good old telephone is better when used for more than one call consecutively, and for longer periods of talk time. The ears get warmer faster using cellphones than in telephones. And these devices like you have mentioned are restricted by the network providers signal. I have to agree though that the payphones are starting to be of no use. So those might be the ones to go first. In response to your question, I have 2 cellphones that I keep open, one is for my personal use and the other is for business. I also have 4 sim cards. Each of them has their use. Its something to juggle all of them but I at least regularly maintain two. We also have 2 telephones in our house, one is for the first floor and the other is for the second floor. Though, we only have 1 landline telephone connection. And lastly we have an internet connection at home, both for work and for recreation.

Well I am seeing in the near distant future, telephones would be obsolete anymore. Since the wireless technology is fast dominating the communications industry. I think that this is the new trends are emerging from time to time.

Very true, I have a cell and digital home phone service with my cable company. I think I will be giving up the home phone and just keeping the cell. It's an added expense that I don't need.

Hubby and I don't have cell phones and in fact, I hate them. I think they are a pain in the b*tt but that's just me. I don't see alot of corded phones anymore although I just bought one for when we have power outages. To be honest I'd love to have one of the old rotary phones...I loved those things. [b]~~MY OWN PEACE WITHIN~~ **STAND STRONG AND BELIEVE IN YOURSELF**[/b]

I have DSL through a land line. the local service is only $5 more so we have a home phone, but no long distance service. We use our cells for all long distance. Other than that there is no use in having it, unless you have security system that needs it.

A couplr of my friends have gotten rid of their landline phones but i think it is still a llitle expensive to just have a mobile phone as yet, I would love to just have the one phone but maybe at this point it is a little more than i could afford to use it as the main phone...

I can't afford cellphone yet. unless they have affordable plan but right now I'm sticking to landline. cellphone is no doubt more convenient but I notice a lot of people complain about the prices when they call long distance within canada.

I still have a land line phone in my house because it's very cheap in price. It is only $13.00 a month for me and I have 2 cordless phones. Me and my husband share a cell phone because that's all we need. It's a pay as you go type of phone because we really wouldn't know what to do with all the minutes on monthly phone plans because we use our house land line more because the low monthly price is hard to beat and we only use our cell when we are not home. My best friend only uses her cell phone only because she is hardly home and it's more affordable for her to just use her cell phone and she got rid of her land home phone because she hardly used it ( probably because she was never home..lol)

Yes I believe there is point to landline phones. A country could take out another countries satellites from space by useing a missle. All you would have after that are regular landline phones if there were ever such a war. Theres other reasons why satellites can stop functioning at least for the short term due to I think supernovas from light years away. I'm not sure about that however but that occured years back if i'm correct.

We have a land line and cell phones, and I surely hope we never have to give up our regular land line phone. When we were without power for 100 hours, the people who used internet phones and cable phones couldn't make calls. Neither could lots of poeople with cell phones. (Something happened during the storm to the towers?) The only folks who could make calls were those who had regular old-fashioned land lines. Our land line is a minimal cost and so is long distance. Nope, I'm not giving it up any time soon.

I have a wired landline phone but I only have that for my daughter & emergency use. Plus I only give out home phone numbers to people I don't want to talk to. Almost all call I get at home are either for my daughter or telemarketers. My girl friend & I both have cell phones we use for our main communication device. We both have it through T-Mobile & if I'm not mistaken, t-mobile is the only one right now on market that few of the phones work on open source wi-fi for calls, VoiP or UMA. We both also have unlimited plan through them. So I guess I technically have 3 different phone system at home, landline, cell phone & voip, which my cell phone turns into when I have access to wireless routers.

We got rid of our landline AGES ago, and have been a cellphone family ever since. Only problem is that my brother broke his phone and never got a new one, so if I need to talk to him, we have to be in the house at the same time. Still though, we've got a really good family plan, and we can call each other for free, and anyone else with our provider, and then ANYONE so long as it's after 7pm, or on the weekends.

I don't think the landline phone (cordless or corded) will completely disappear. For example, I pay a flat $15 a month and can make unlimited local calls. And since the majority of my calls are local, it's cheaper than the $40 per month for a cellphone. In addition, the voice quality over a landline tends to be better and you don't experience disconnects nearly as much. And because landline phones are larger, it's much easier to hold on your shoulder when speaking to somebody or rifling through paperwork while you're on the phone. Plus, many cordless phones allow you to change frequencies to get a better signal. That's something most cells don't have. And with my cordless phone (landline), it has a built-in answering machine that lets me monitor the incoming calls. A cellphone doesn't do this. Yes, you have voicemail. But that's very different from an answering machine that allows you to screen incoming calls. Now as far as VoIP goes, that's a nice thing. But I don't see it as anything more than a really cool tech feature. But it's not something that's really practical for most people. In other words, I don't see people turning on their computer in order to use the phone. If you want to make a phone call, you'll grab the phone. And if you want to use the computer, you'll turn that one. But having to turn one on in order to use the other doesn't make sense. And using VoIP for incoming calls makes even less sense. Who wants to limit themselves to only receiving calls when the computer is on? Nobody! So I say there are many advantages to cells. And yes, some are replacing landlines with cells. But I don't see landlines going away! Pay phones, yes. But in people's homes, no.