{"id":43397,"date":"2014-07-08T10:29:53","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T16:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/08\/lots-of-folks-are-cutting-the-land-line.html"},"modified":"2014-07-09T20:38:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T02:38:00","slug":"lots-of-folks-are-cutting-the-land-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/08\/lots-of-folks-are-cutting-the-land-line.html","title":{"rendered":"Lots of folks are cutting the land-line"},"content":{"rendered":"
That 41% is huge. And it's a trend I expect to continue. When will we see houses built without phone lines attached, I wonder?<\/p>\n

Three\u00a0thoughts on this:<\/p>\n

First, if we got better mobile reception at our house, this would be tempting. Adding the Verizon femtocell has helped, but not as much as I liked.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Second, this has the interesting effect of fragmenting family communication. You don't have phone numbers for "The Smiths," you have separate numbers for Bob, Susan, Billy, and Stacey. \u00a0(Or the number you have for Billy and Stacey is their 'rents' mobiles, which has its own interesting issues). \u00a0<\/p>\n

On the other hand, with number portability, the phone number you have for Billy, once he gets a mobile, is likely to be how you can contact him for life.<\/i><\/p>\n

On the other hand, if you've heard that Bob died … do you have Susan's number to call her up with your condolences? Or if you've been trying to reach Bob and you can't — whom do you call?<\/p>\n

On the other hand, it means a family\u00a0being on vacation isn't necessarily completely out of touch until they return.<\/p>\n

Third, does this mean that if you want to be possibly reached in the middle of the night (by family, if not by your boss), then you must<\/i> carry your mobile upstairs with you to bed? \u00a0(And, thus, carry it with you effectively everywhere?)\u00a0<\/p>\n

I realize a lot of the above questions are already a reality for a lot of folk (as the below shows), but they're things I'd think about before cutting the land line.<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +Les Jenkins<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

We've been wireless only since late 2005. Wow, that's almost 9 years now.\ufeff<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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41% Of U.S. Homes Are Now Wireless-Only<\/a>
\n Ten years ago, only about 1-in-20 American homes were cellphone-only. By 2010, that rate had soared to 1-in-5. And according to the newest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, …\n <\/p>\n

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That 41% is huge. And it's a trend I expect to continue. When will we see houses built without phone lines attached, I wonder? Three\u00a0thoughts on this: First, if we got better mobile reception at our house, this would be tempting. 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