We'd be cell only but DSL is the only thing that is available here and adding a landline decreases the total cost of service for the DSL so we keep it. I couldn't bring myself to pay full price for DSL nightmare.
On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 6:13 PM, Rev. Stewart Marshall < [email protected]> wrote: > 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. >> >> >> ************************************************************************* >> ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** >> ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** >> ************************************************************************* >> > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
