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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% |
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|  | Resident Slayer | | | | | 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.
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|  | Astounding Vision | |  2 Many Bugs Champion! Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: South Eastern North Carolina, Cape Fear Region
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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)
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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.
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|  | In the Spatula Zone | Sponsor | | | | Re: Do you still have a land line?
Cell phone only. I have no need for a landline.
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|  | Reasonably Reasonable | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Blue Springs, MO - USA
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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.
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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 
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| | Resident Slayer | | | | | Re: Do you still have a land line?
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Originally Posted by REASON  ...I don't want to carry around two mobile phones.... | I do. Thank god for purses...
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| | Reasonably Reasonable | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Blue Springs, MO - USA
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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  )
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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,
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Resolution of the Fifth Annual Meetings of the Traditional Elders Circle, 1980 |
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| | In the Spatula Zone | Sponsor | | | | Re: Do you still have a land line?
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Originally Posted by DougF I wish I could make them go away, | https://www.donotcall.gov/
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