Lazlow
join:2006-08-07
Saint Louis, MO | reply to ITALIAN926
Re: uh I know a lot of families that have a cell phone for every member, even the first graders. With all the events in the last decade (twin towers, school shootings, abductions, etc) parents want to be able to call(and often locate by remote means) their children. When cutbacks are made it is usually the land line that goes and not one of the cell phones. Going right along with that I am seeing a lot of working people with two cell phones, one for work and one for personal. Considering that the cost differential is minimal (for what you get) I think land lines are on borrowed time (unless they change). |
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Mce SaintPremium
join:2007-10-03
Saint Louis, MO Reviews:
 ·AT&T U-Verse
| We just cut the landline at our house within the last week. The wife and I both have and use cell phones. Anyone who wants to talk to us knew to call our cell phones not the home phone. In fact 99.9% of the time the ringer was off on the landline.
AT&T landline per month was $26 for basic service; in addition, Sprint long-distance charged about $6 for just the *ability* to make long-distance calls (none were ever made). $32 x 12 months = $384 for a line we NEVER used (except to allow the DirecTV receivers to dial out).
We have an 8 year old so didn't want to go *completely* without a "back-up" phone in case the babysitter didn't have one OR we keeled over with a stroke and our phones weren't charged.
Solution? Boost mobile "burner" phone. Cost $25 for the phone and $20 every ninety days to "recharge" the minutes. Cost now (1st year) = $105; following years = $80. The Boost phone has GPS and is e911. We keep this in the kitchen right where the old landline was and we keep it charged up. We've only used it once - to confirm that it works. |
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systems2000What? You Say It's Fixed. Hah
join:2001-11-29
Cyberspace | All cell phones will call 911 without any service contracts of any type. |
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