Most of those statistics take into account young people who are very
mobile and do not have land lines. (Plus metropolitan areas)
My two oldest children fall into that category.
My daughter and son-in-law own a house but have no land line. MY son
lives in an apt. and has no land line.
However Verizon cell service is extremely reliable in this area.
Within my congregation only a few (read less than a handful) have
cell only phones. Most of them have Cell phones, but only for travel
or emergencies.
Stewart
At 06:58 PM 1/1/2010, you wrote:
The 1 in 5 stat looks like FUD to me.
That's B.S. The United States doesn't have the broadband or cellular
capacity to eliminate land lines [and it doesn't need to steal from
TV bandwidth either]. Early on, corporations decided to make
incompatible systems instead of a series of nationwide roaming
networks. They also didn't want gummint interference, only our tax
dollars to whatever they pleased.
The key word is ONLY. Most people who have their own homes have a
land line PLUS cellular. It's not either/or. There's not enough
bandwidth for everyone to get rid of land lines. There's not enough
reliability for everyone to switch from land lines to cellular or
VOIP. Might work in the city or inner 'burbs, but there's a lot of
the country where it would be a real hardship to lose land lines,
whether or not they own/use mobile phones or VOIP.
When was the last time you had to use VOIP during a power failure,
even one that lasted only a few hours? Or FIOS when power is out
long enough for the batteries to die? Have you ever tried to use a
mobile phone during an emergency like a hurricane? They often don't
work or connections are sporadic because everyone is tying up the network.
Verizon land lines work well. Thanks Verizon.
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