|
View Poll Results: Do you still have a land line?
|
|
Yes, local and long distance.
|
   
|
23 |
52.27% |
|
Yes, local only.
|
  
|
6 |
13.64% |
|
Yes, but only for DSL.
|
  
|
2 |
4.55% |
|
No, cable-based VOIP
|
  
|
1 |
2.27% |
|
No, cell only.
|
  
|
9 |
20.45% |
|
No, we don' need no steeenkeen phone!
|
  
|
3 |
6.82% |
 |
|
05-14-2008
|
#1 (permalink)
|
|
Resident Slayer
|
Not Ranked
:
+0 / -0
0 score
Do you still have a land line?
From today's SF Comical: Nobody Calls That Number Anymore: More people depend solely on cell phones.:
Quote:
According to a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 22.3 percent of U.S. households with both landline and cell phones receive almost all of their phone calls on their mobile phone. That's 13.1 percent of all households in the United States.
Combined with wireless-only households, 28.9 percent, or nearly 3 out of every 10 households, are reliant or almost completely dependent on cell phones.
|
How do you explain school to a higher intelligence? 
Buffy
----------------
"If you do not agree with anything I say, I'll not only retract it, but deny under oath that I ever said it!"
__________________________________________________ ______________-- Tom Lehrer
"No Robbie, not Europe!"
Forum Administrator
Hypography Science Forums - Science for Boys and Girls! Its not for nothing that we hang out here. |
|
|
05-14-2008
|
#2 (permalink)
|
|
Astounding Vision
Location:
South Eastern North Carolina, Cape Fear Region
|
Not Ranked
:
+0 / -0
0 score
Re: Do you still have a land line?
I still have a land line, it's cheaper than a cell but I do have a cell but I only use it for emergencies and to call my son at college. (he has a cell and it's free for us to talk)
----------------
Michael
Life is the poetry of the universe.
Love is the poetry of life.
Nuclear is the only real option!
http://www.nuclearspace.com/Liberty_ship_menupg.aspx
Over heard from a three year old, "Daddy why do my toes get sticky when I eat strawberry jam?" 
Never wrestle a troll. You both get dirty and the troll likes it 
Proud graduate of Wossamotta University!
 |
|
|
|
05-14-2008
|
#3 (permalink)
|
|
Hypo Contributer
Sponsor |
Location:
Dark Side of the Moon
|
Not Ranked
:
+0 / -0
0 score
Re: Do you still have a land line?
I still have the 1 land line the wife and I both have cells.
Both of the cell phones have two way (direct connect) but the wife would rather talk on the land line then the cell or two way.
Edit: I use land line for DSL also.
----------------
"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who do nothing." Albert Einstein
MySpace.com/DF34788
.
|
|
|
|
05-14-2008
|
#4 (permalink)
|
|
M.C. Grillmeister
Sponsor |
|
Not Ranked
:
+0 / -0
0 score
Re: Do you still have a land line?
Cell phone only. I have no need for a landline.
----------------
Hypography Science Forums Moderator
---
"There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew." - Marshall McLuhan
"We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it." - Marie Curie
|
|
|
|
05-14-2008
|
#5 (permalink)
|
|
Transparent Reflection
Location:
Blue Springs, MO - USA
|
Not Ranked
:
+0 / -0
0 score
Re: Do you still have a land line?
Yes, I still have a land line at my house. My work provides my mobile phone, so I don't really feel I have a choice. I don't want to carry around two mobile phones. Plus, it still seems to me like I should have a household phone number. It's probably just an old school mentality.
----------------
It seems to me that people tend to prefer to believe what they want to be real or true, despite evidence to the contrary.
When what you believe is refuted by evidence, you are faced with a choice.
|
|
|
|
05-14-2008
|
#6 (permalink)
|
|
Creating
Sponsor |
|
Not Ranked
:
+0 / -0
0 score
Re: Do you still have a land line?
Technically I do still have a land-line.
I have it for our monitoring service and fax only.
I never answer the phone, and no one I know (including me) knows the phone number.
I have to say, I love not needing to deal with telemarketers 
----------------
"Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents; it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.
(Ancient Indian Proverb)"
1874 engraving of Mount Hood and the Columbia River by R. Henshel Wood
|
|
|
|
05-14-2008
|
#7 (permalink)
|
|
Resident Slayer
|
Not Ranked
:
+0 / -0
0 score
Re: Do you still have a land line?
Quote:
Originally Posted by REASON
...I don't want to carry around two mobile phones....
|
I do. Thank god for purses...
No fashion has ever been created expressly for the lean purse or for the fat woman: the dressmaker's ideal is the thin millionaires,
Buffy
----------------
"If you do not agree with anything I say, I'll not only retract it, but deny under oath that I ever said it!"
__________________________________________________ ______________-- Tom Lehrer
"No Robbie, not Europe!"
Forum Administrator
Hypography Science Forums - Science for Boys and Girls! Its not for nothing that we hang out here. |
|
|
|
05-14-2008
|
#8 (permalink)
|
|
Transparent Reflection
Location:
Blue Springs, MO - USA
|
Not Ranked
:
+0 / -0
0 score
Re: Do you still have a land line?
Quote:
Originally Posted by Buffy
I do. Thank god for purses...
|
Yeah? Well I don't want to carry one of those around either.
(Well, unless it's a Coach of course, and is neutral enough to match all my shoes  )
----------------
It seems to me that people tend to prefer to believe what they want to be real or true, despite evidence to the contrary.
When what you believe is refuted by evidence, you are faced with a choice.
|
|
|
|
05-14-2008
|
#9 (permalink)
|
|
Hypo Contributer
Sponsor |
Location:
Dark Side of the Moon
|
Not Ranked
:
+0 / -0
0 score
Re: Do you still have a land line?
Quote:
Zythryn
I have to say, I love not needing to deal with telemarketers
|
I've got these people calling me every day on my cell saying,
"This is your third and final notice that the warranty is about to expire on you vehicle"
I wish I could make them go away,
----------------
"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who do nothing." Albert Einstein
MySpace.com/DF34788
.
|
|
|
|
05-14-2008
|
#10 (permalink)
|
|
M.C. Grillmeister
Sponsor |
|
Not Ranked
:
+0 / -0
0 score
Re: Do you still have a land line?
Quote:
Originally Posted by DougF
I wish I could make them go away, |
https://www.donotcall.gov/
----------------
Hypography Science Forums Moderator
---
"There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew." - Marshall McLuhan
"We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it." - Marie Curie
|
|
|
|
|
|
Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)
|
|
|
|
» Advertisement |
|
|
|
