From: "Madeleine Yeh" <myeh at wap.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Technology & Society, or will the landline join the buggy whip?
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>, wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 13:58:54 -0500
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

   I like my landline too, but I use the cell phone for
long distance since its cheaper.
     Madeleine

On Fri, 28 Dec 2012 13:44:47 -0500
  whitroth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> Michael Walsh wrote:
>> "The long slow death of the landline"
>>
>> "The CDC reports that more than one third of American
>>homes are now
>> landline-free, with six in ten adults aged under 30
>>living in
>> households with only wireless phones."
>>
>> http://boingboing.net/2012/12/28/the-long-slow-death-of-the-lan.html
>>
> With any luck, it won't be near gone before I am. I
>*hate* cell phones.
> Esp. since I'm one of the rapidly decreasing population,
>apparently, who
> actually MAKE PHONE CALLS and want to TALK TO PEOPLE.
>
> A couple years ago, I heard a report on the current/new
>crop of cell
> phones. At the end of the `10 or more minute piece,
>crowing over all the
> Wonderful Features, they said, "and how about voice
>quality". The response
> was that one wan't bad, one was mediocre, and the rest
>were *terrible*.
>
> So the next person who even *thinks* about talking to me
>about the Wonders
> of their New Phone, unless the first thing you tell me
>is "voice quality
> is better than landlines 90 years ago", and "you can
>talk on it without
> entertaining the entire Metro car", I'll tell you that
>you're paying *way*
> too much money for a piece of crap that some PR type
>told you was k3wl,
> and let's just skip the actual conversation.
>
>          mark
>