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Soon, it will be more shocking for someone to have a land line: The Post looks at how many people are giving up land lines for the competitive rates and flexibility their cell phones offer. And now with the FCC allowing portability of home phone numbers to cells, land lines may become few and far between. Until the next blackout, that is.
Plus the Department of Education is trying to ban cellphones from city schools, saying, "Cell phones obviously can distract students from their studies, but they may also be - and in the past have been - used for inappropriate or dangerous purposes." Students and parents are up in arms - students for the obvious reasons and parents cite reachability during crises. [Gothamist on how students use (and abuse) cellphones and other technology.]
One Post reporter undergoes "cellphone sobriety": By day five, Alyssa Shelasky is hallucinating sending and receiving messages to her wedding caterers.
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I really love the ol' "I need to reach my kid in an emergency" rationale for giving a kid a cell phone in school. Be honest...how many times have you really used your cell phone in an outright emergency? (No, being shitfaced and calling a car service does not qualify.) Probably not very often. Possibly never. I know I haven't. Cellular service providers have done a great job of playing the fear card.
Land lines went out with dial-up Internet service. Come the next blackout I might need a landline, but I'll happily trade ten or 12 years of a meaningless phone bill for a day or two without communication.
T-mobile just gave me 50 free minutes to say "thanks" for being their customer this month. They are going to have to do better than a guilt trip to get me to stick around, but I like the thought.
I do not own a cellphone, and I wish they would do something about the proliferation of area codes. If letting people keep one number does it, then great!
Jen looks really cool testing phones. The caption should be, "can you hear me now? Good."